admonish, caution, cry out against, derail, discourage, exhort, frighten off, kid out of, remonstrate, throw off, urge
Definitionv. turn away from by persuasion
Last update: October 27, 2015
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Negative campaigning will only dissuade people from voting. [verb]
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Alternate roof styles can be provided on request including flat, high pitched or steep slope versions to dissuade climbing or sitting on cabinet. [verb]
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They picketed to dissuade people from going in to the Greek evening dinner. [verb]
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I have made up my mind, so do not attempt to dissuade me. [verb]
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I did all I could to dissuade him from it, but he continued scribbling verses till Pope cured him. [verb]
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I neither expressed surprise at this resolution nor attempted to dissuade her from it. [verb]
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I remember his being dissuaded by some of his friends from the undertaking, as not likely to succeed, one newspaper being, in their judgment, enough for America. [verb]
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Mary had taken the whim into her wilful head, and Jane could not dissuade her. [Please select]
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