different between vouch vs persuade

English

Etymology

From Middle English vouchen, that borrowed from Old French voucher, from Latin voc?re, present active infinitive of voc?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?t?/
• Rhymes: -a?t?

Verb

vouch (third-person singular simple present vouches, present participle vouching, simple past and past participle vouched)

1. To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
2. To warrant; to maintain by affirmations

   Synonyms: attest, affirm, avouch

   • October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon

     They made him ashamed first to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
3. To back; to support; to confirm.
4. To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
5. (obsolete) To call; to summon.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.

6. To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
7. To call as a witness.
8. To assert; to aver; to declare.

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Related terms

• avouch

Translations

Noun

vouch (plural vouches)

1. Warrant; attestation.

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.