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persuade
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)
- (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.
- (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something). [15th–18th c.]
- (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.
- 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford 2009, p. 119:
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- “persuade” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.s?ad/
Verb
persuade
- inflection of persuader:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Italian
Verb
persuade
- third-person singular indicative present of persuadere
Latin
Verb
persu?d?
- second-person singular present active imperative of persu?de?
Portuguese
Verb
persuade
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of persuadir
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of persuadir
Spanish
Verb
persuade
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of persuadir.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of persuadir.
persuade From the web:
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whitemail
English
Etymology
white +? mail, by analogy with blackmail.
Noun
whitemail (uncountable)
- (business) A tactic to resist hostile takeover, in which the target company sells discounted stock to a friendly third party.
- Persuasion based on positive rather than negative effects.
Related terms
- see blackmail
See also
- whitemail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
whitemail (third-person singular simple present whitemails, present participle whitemailing, simple past and past participle whitemailed)
- To persuade.
- (ironic) Of a white person: to carry out blackmail.
whitemail From the web:
- what whitemail meaning
- what does white mail mean
- what is whitemail
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