different between deject vs dissuade

English

Etymology

From Old French dejeter, from Latin deicere (“to throw down”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??d??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

deject (third-person singular simple present dejects, present participle dejecting, simple past and past participle dejected)

1. (transitive) Make sad or dispirited.
   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 73,^[1]

     […] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears.

   • 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [2]

     On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To cast downward.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: John Williams, Book 5, Chapter 1, p. 358,^[3]

     […] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
3. To debase or humble.

Translations

Noun

deject (plural dejects)

1. One who is lowly or abject.
2. (usually in the plural) A waste product.

Derived terms

• dejected
• dejection

English

Etymology

From Middle French dissuader, from Latin dissu?de? (“I urge differently”, “I advise against”, “I dissuade”), from dis- (“away from”, “asunder”) + su?de? (“I recommend”, “I advise”, “I urge”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d??swe?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

dissuade (third-person singular simple present dissuades, present participle dissuading, simple past and past participle dissuaded)

1. (transitive) To convince not to try or do.

   Jane dissuaded Martha from committing suicide.

Antonyms

• persuade

Related terms

• dissuasion
• dissuasive

Translations

French

Verb

dissuade

1. first-person singular present indicative of dissuader
2. third-person singular present indicative of dissuader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of dissuader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of dissuader
5. second-person singular imperative of dissuader

Italian

Verb

dissuade

1. third-person singular present indicative of dissuadere

Latin

Verb

dissu?d?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dissu?de?

Portuguese

Verb

dissuade

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of dissuadir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of dissuadir