1 to cause someone to believe something or to do something:
We tried to convince my grandfather to live with us.
[ + (that) clause ] I’m convinced (that) she’s lying.
Agricultural companies have failed to convince consumers that GM foods are safe.
His doctor tried to convince him that he wasn't really ill and that it was all in the mind.
Autosuggestion is the power of mind over matter - if you convince yourself that you are cured, you will be.
It took a lot of persuasion to convince the committee of the advantages of the new scheme.
Sometimes my imagination runs away with me and I convince myself that they are having an affair.
In radically unjust societies, there may be transactions that injure persons that we might be convinced the unjust background conditions played little role in.
Currently this is more a belief than a concept with convincing scientific support.
Furthermore, the outlook on possible practical applications of a pattern grammar to foreign language teaching is both convincing and promising (chapter 9).
