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Definitions for dissuade
dɪˈsweɪddis·suade

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dissuade, deterverb

    turn away from by persuasion

    "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"

Wiktionary

  1. dissuadeverb

    To convince not to try or do.

  2. Etymology: From dissuadeo, from dis- + suadeo.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To DISSUADEverb

    Etymology: dissuadeo, Latin.

    We submit to Cæsar, promising
    To pay our wonted tribute, from the which
    We were dissuaded by our wicked queen. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

    This would be worse;
    War therefore, open or conceal’d, alike
    My voice dissuades. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii.

    Not diffident of thee, do I dissuade
    Thy absence from my sight. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ix.

    I’d fain deny this wish, which thou hast made;
    Or, what I can’t deny, would fain dissuade. Joseph Addison, Ovid.

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  1. dissuade

    To dissuade means to persuade someone not to take a particular course of action. It involves deterring or discouraging someone from doing something, often through reasoning or argument.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dissuadeverb

    to advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course)

  2. Dissuadeverb

    to divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose

  3. Etymology: [L. dissuadere, dissuasum; dis- + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. dissuader. See Suasion.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Dissuade

    dis-swād′, v.t. to advise against: to try to divert from anything by advice or persuasion: to succeed in persuading not to.—ns. Dissuā′der; Dissuā′sion.—adj. Dissuā′sive, tending to dissuade.—n. that which tends to dissuade.—adv. Dissuā′sively.—n. and adj. Dissuā′sory (rare). [Fr.,—L. dissuadēredis, apart, suadēre, suasum, to advise.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dissuade in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dissuade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of dissuade in a Sentence

  1. John Swartzberg:

    I dont want to dissuade people from doing this, people have to ask, Is there a way we can do this safely? The answer is Yes you can, but its not the way you might like it. But were all doing things we dont like right now.

  2. Henry Cuellar:

    My message remains the same. The border is not secure, and we need to be doing more to dissuade migrants from coming to the United States.

  3. French President Macron:

    We can't let it slide. We must have sanctions that dissuade with what's happened there [ in Bucha ], what's happening at Mariupol.

  4. Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg:

    The real problem with the information sharing is not just that it has resulted in people being deported but that the specific design of it is to dissuade sponsors from coming forward, thereby keeping kids locked up for longer.

  5. David Schenker:

    I would work with our allies to dissuade them, or encourage them, to avoid military purchases that would be potentially sanctionable, in other words, I would tell Saudi Arabia not to do it.

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