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persuade
[per-sweyd]
verb (used with object)
persuaded, persuading
to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging.
We could not persuade him to wait.
Antonyms: dissuadeto induce to believe by appealing to reason or understanding; convince.
to persuade the judge of the prisoner's innocence.
persuade
/ pəˈsweɪd /
verb
to induce, urge, or prevail upon successfully
he finally persuaded them to buy it
to cause to believe; convince
even with the evidence, the police were not persuaded
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Usage
See convince.
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Other Word Forms
- persuadable adjective
- persuadability noun
- persuader noun
- persuadableness noun
- persuadably adverb
- persuadingly adverb
- nonpersuadable adjective
- prepersuade verb (used with object)
- unpersuadable adjective
- unpersuadably adverb
- unpersuaded adjective
- well-persuaded adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of persuade1
C16: from Latin persuādēre, from per- (intensive) + suādēre to urge, advise
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Synonym Study
Persuade, induce imply influencing someone's thoughts or actions. They are used today mainly in the sense of winning over a person to a certain course of action: It was I who persuaded him to call a doctor. I induced him to do it. They differ in that persuade suggests appealing more to the reason and understanding: I persuaded him to go back to his wife (although it is often lightly used: Can't I persuade you to stay to supper? ); induce emphasizes only the idea of successful influence, whether achieved by argument or by promise of reward: What can I say that will induce you to stay at your job? Owing to this idea of compensation, induce may be used in reference to the influence of factors as well as of persons: The prospect of a raise in salary was what induced him to stay.
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