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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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
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
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
If she thinks that her misery will be greater in being engaged to a poor man, than,—than in relinquishing her love, she shall hear no word from me to overpersuade her.
From Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
And Wulfhere and I tried a little to overpersuade her, but then a groom came to say that all was ready.
From A Thane of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
I fancy the poet let himself be overpersuaded to omit it.
From There & Back by George MacDonald
She always preferred remaining at home; and yet, perhaps, to-day she might have allowed herself to have been overpersuaded, had she not found herself so extremely weak.
From O. T. a Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
The little Cavendishes, reluctant but overpersuaded, had their faces washed alongside and were dressed by Connie, while Mrs. Cavendish performed the same offices for the baby.
From The Prodigal Judge by Vaughan Kester
Browne wanted to accompany him, but was overpersuaded.
From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard
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 Nell Speed
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 Kuno Francke
Hank doubtless felt that he had in a sense helped his old pal to death by overpersuading him.
From The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
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 Arthur Hugh Clough
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