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
I am not sure that I do not now regret that I allowed my church-wardens to overpersuade me on this point.
From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton
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
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