overpersuade
Americanverb (used with object)
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to persuade (a person) against their own inclination or intention.
By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
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to win or bring over by persuasion.
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We must beware of attempts to overpersuade or even coerce His Majesty's Government to bind themselves or their unknown successors in conditions which no one can foresee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said he: "In telling facts, public leaders may sometimes be able to overpersuade or cajole the commentators, but the photographer's lens always remains true."
From Time Magazine Archive
When she had once made up her mind in the negative, no foolish attempt of mine could overpersuade her—could make her trust our weight on it a hair's-breadth.
From The Flight of the Shadow by MacDonald, George
Because by gaining her he would the more easily overpersuade her husband to give his consent.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
It was a spontaneous throe of the imagination, which had force to overpersuade the organs of perception.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
I couldn't help comparing this boat ride to the one I had been overpersuaded to take with Wink only a few days before.
From A House Party with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell
Baring was convinced that Tricoupi, as well as the late premier, was bent on war, and would not at first believe that his request was sincere, but finally, overpersuaded, did telegraph to London.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by Stillman, William James
Appeals to his curiosity finally overpersuaded him, and now it was my turn to wait on the bench while he invaded the realm of the Voices.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
At last Edison was overpersuaded, and, all dirty and perspiring as he was, received the medal rather than cause the visitor to come again.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
How, then, has it come to pass that women have persuaded themselves, or have been overpersuaded, into the belief that a bonnet is the highest point of perfection in their dress?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
Therefore the rest of the commanders, overpersuading Archelaus, and drawing up the army, covered the plain with horses, chariots, bucklers, targets.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
Hank doubtless felt that he had in a sense helped his old pal to death by overpersuading him.
From The Wendigo by Blackwood, Algernon
The latter gladly gave her permission, and lent her assistance in overcoming and overpersuading Ottilie's hesitation in assuming so sacred a personality.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
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