DISSUADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissuade mean? 

• DISSUADE (verb)
  The verb DISSUADE has 1 sense:

1. turn away from by persuasion

  Familiarity information: DISSUADE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSUADE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dissuade    ... he / she / it dissuades   
Past simple: dissuaded   
Past participle: dissuaded   
-ing form: dissuading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn away from by persuasion

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

deter; dissuade

Context example:

Negative campaigning will only dissuade people

Hypernyms (to "dissuade" is one way to...):

advise; counsel; rede (give advice to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dissuade"):

talk out of (persuade someone not to do something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot dissuade Sue
They dissuade him to write the letter

Antonym:

persuade (cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm)

Derivation:

dissuasion (persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action)

dissuasion (a communication that dissuades you)

dissuasive (deterring from action)

 Context examples 

No one interfered to encourage or dissuade.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I neither expressed surprise at this resolution nor attempted to dissuade her from it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He wrote forever dissuading us from such a course.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Henry wished to dissuade me, but seeing me bent on this plan, ceased to remonstrate.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Poor man!—it was at first a considerable shock to him, and he tried earnestly to dissuade her from it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You are to understand, Miss Bennet, that I came here with the determined resolution of carrying my purpose; nor will I be dissuaded from it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Though he anxiously endeavoured to dissuade me, I saw that he was of my mind; and this, if I had required to be confirmed in my intention, would have had the effect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The house, too, as described by Sir John, was on so simple a scale, and the rent so uncommonly moderate, as to leave her no right of objection on either point; and, therefore, though it was not a plan which brought any charm to her fancy, though it was a removal from the vicinity of Norland beyond her wishes, she made no attempt to dissuade her mother from sending a letter of acquiescence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She tried to dissuade Mary from going, but in vain; and that being the case, thought it best to accept the Miss Musgroves' much more cordial invitation to herself to go likewise, as she might be useful in turning back with her sister, and lessening the interference in any plan of their own.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I shall speak to my sisters and try to dissuade them, and that is all I can do.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)