"change someone's mind" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-change someone's mind.ogg [Australia] Forms: changes someone's mind [present, singular, third-person], changing someone's mind [participle, present], changed someone's mind [participle, past], changed someone's mind [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} change someone's mind (third-person singular simple present changes someone's mind, present participle changing someone's mind, simple past and past participle changed someone's mind)
  1. (idiomatic) To convince someone to make a choice or develop a preference differing from their previous one. Tags: idiomatic Hyponyms: persuade (english: convince them to favor an option), dissuade (english: convince them to reject an option) Related terms: change one's mind [intransitive, reflexive], hearts and minds Translations (to convince someone to make a decision): 說服 (Chinese Mandarin), 说服 (shuōfú, shuìfú) (Chinese Mandarin), saada muuttamaan mielensä (Finnish), faire changer quelqu’un d’avis (French), rávesz (Hungarian), rábeszél (Hungarian), meggyőz (Hungarian), hacer cambiar de idea (Spanish), birinin fikrini değiştirmek (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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