different between persuade vs persuader

English

Alternative forms

• perswade (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin persu?de? (“I persuade”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??swe?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??swe?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Hyphenation: per?suade

Verb

persuade (third-person singular simple present persuades, present participle persuading, simple past and past participle persuaded)

1. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. [from 15th c.]

   Synonym: convince

   Antonyms: deter, dissuade

   • The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something). [15th–18th c.]
3. (transitive, now rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something). [from 16th c.]
   • 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford 2009, p. 119:

     She did not go into the coffee-room, though repeatedly persuaded by Miss Woodley, but waited at the door till her carriage drew up.

   • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 34:

     He persuaded me to go home, but I refused.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “persuade” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.s?ad/

Verb

persuade

1. inflection of persuader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

persuade

1. third-person singular indicative present of persuadere

Latin

Verb

persu?d?

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

Portuguese

Verb

persuade

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

Spanish

Verb

persuade

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of persuadir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of persuadir.

English

Etymology

persuade +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??swe?d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??swe?d?/

Noun

persuader (plural persuaders)

1. One who, or that which, persuades.
2. (printing, historical, colloquial) A tool used to pack the type into the form.
   • 1898, John Southward, Modern Printing: A Handbook of the Principles and Practice of Typography and the Auxiliary Arts

     Next fit the quoins, using the “persuader” to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all around.

3. (television) An electrode that directs electrons into a multiplier.
   • 1953, Stanley William Amos, ?D. C. Birkinshaw, Television Engineering, Principles and Practice (page 108)

     These electrons are guided to the second dynode by the resultant electric field of this dynode and the persuader.

Anagrams

• predauers

French

Etymology

From Middle French persuader, from Latin persu?de? (“I persuade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.s?a.de/
• Homophones: persuadai, persuadé, persuadée, persuadées, persuadés, persuadez

Verb

persuader

1. to persuade

Conjugation

Related terms

• persuadé
• persuasif
• persuasion

Further reading

• “persuader” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dépureras

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin persu?de? (“I persuade”).

Verb

persuader

1. to persuade

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Related terms

• persuasion

Descendants

• French: persuader