overpersuade

American  

[oh-ver-per-swayd] / ˌoʊ vər pərˈsweɪd /

verb (used with object)

overpersuaded, overpersuading

1. to persuade (a person) against their own inclination or intention.

   By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.

2. to win or bring over by persuasion.

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overpersuade British  

/ ˌəʊvəpəˈsweɪd /

verb

1. (tr) to persuade (someone) against his inclination or judgment

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Other Word Forms

• overpersuasion
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of overpersuade

First recorded in 1615–25; over- + persuade

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

overpersuade overpersuaded overpersuading

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

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 Compton MacKenzie

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

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 George MacDonald

But with the ambition of inexperience I suggested we should race two competitors one against the other, and Piggott let himself be overpersuaded.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 by Various

Just as Rex expected, Tobe allowed himself to be overpersuaded and rode the sorrel horse.

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

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

Amaury, despairing of success, offered his claims to the French King, and in 1223 Philip's successor, Louis VIII, overpersuaded by the Pope, accepted them.

From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by D. J. (Dudley Julius) Medley

Now, gentlemen, he comes on the stand and swears that he made this affidavit, not being overpersuaded by Bosler, but because Dorsey with tears and groans besought him to make it.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll

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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