Dissuade

Definition: Dissuade

Dissuade

Verb

1. Turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people".

Date "dissuade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Dissuade \Dis*suade"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Dissuaded; present participle verb or noun Dissuading.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Dissuade

Synonym: deter (v). (additional references)

Antonym: persuade (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dissuasion	Verb: dissuade, dehort, cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate, warn, contraindicate.
Hindrance	Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dissuade

English words defined with "dissuade": aversive ♦ Dehort, Dehortatory, deter, Disadvise, Discounsel, Dispurpose, Dissuaded, Dissuading, Diswarn ♦ The five wits, To forestall the market, To let be. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dissuade": Cross ♦ Siren. (references)

Etymologies containing "dissuade": Disadvise, Dispurpose, Dissuasion ♦ suasion. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Billy Middlebrooks tries to dissuade a mob which attempt to haul a Negro motorist from his car, as the latter passed through Clinton, Aug. 31. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Benin	The president has established special task forces to tackle government corruption and the finance minister has launched efforts to dissuade and punish civil service corruption. (references)
	Russia	High tax levels and extremely high costs in complying with Russian tax authorities, inconsistent government regulation, the inability of some investors to obtain redress through the legal system, and crime and corruption all dissuade investors. (references)
	Russia	The high costs in complying with Russian tax authorities, inconsistent government regulation, poor corporate governance, the inability of some investors to obtain redress through the legal system, and crime and corruption all dissuade investors. (references)
Human Rights	Guatemala	In February his Guatemalan employer received an anonymous death threat that clearly was intended to dissuade him from testifying. (references)
	Bolivia	The warning shots apparently failed to dissuade the demonstrators, who moved closer to the troops and, in one case, attempted to wrestle a rifle from a soldier. (references)
Minorities	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Some hard-line local authorities in the eastern RS sought to keep information regarding the right to return and conditions in return sites from reaching displaced Serbs in their areas, so as to dissuade them from attempting to return to their former homes. (references)
Political Economy	Oman	In general, regional political events have little impact on Oman's economy except as they affect oil prices and perhaps dissuade investment because investors lack a sophisticated view of Oman's location in and policies regarding the Middle East. (references)
Political Rights	Congo	This law could be used to exclude opponents from the political process, and the threat of charges under this law may dissuade political figures that are in exile from returning to the country. (references)
Women	Croatia	While men occasionally suffered from this practice, it was used disproportionately against women to dissuade them from taking maternity leave. (references)
Worker Rights	Mexico	For example, the board member from an established union worked to dissuade a JLCA from recognizing a rival organization. (references)
	Tajikistan	The law prohibits antiunion discrimination, the use of sanctions to dissuade union membership, and the firing of a worker solely for union activity. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
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"Dissuade" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 95.74% of the time. "Dissuade" is used about 141 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	95.74%	135	27,360
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.26%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	141	N/A

Expressions using "dissuade": dissuade from ♦ dissuade smb. from smth.. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "dissuade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		afraai (advise against, dissuade from). (various references)

Albanian		zhbind, i kthej mendjen. (various references)

Arabic		‏نصح بالعدول (dissuasion), ‏ثنى (bend, deter, drape, flex, fold, folding, goffer, hire, inflect, lap, pat, pleat, pliable, praise, pucker, replicate, tribute, tuck). (various references)

Bulgarian		разубеждавам (deter, discourage, indispose, put off, reason out of), раздумвам. (various references)

Chinese		谏阻 (Dissuaded, Dissuading). (various references)

Czech		zrazovat (advise, discourage), odrazovat (discourage, dishearten, expostulate), odradit (discourage, draw back, pour cold water on, scare off). (various references)

Dutch		afraden (advise against, dissuade from). (various references)

Esperanto		dekonsili (advise against, dissuade from), malkonsili (advise against, dissuade from). (various references)

Farsi		منصرف کردن , دلسردکردن (Discourage, Dishearten, Disspirit, Estrange, Unnerve). (various references)

Finnish		varoittaa jotakuta tekemästä jotakin (caution somebody against, dissuade a persoperson from, warn somebody not to). (various references)

French		dissuader (dispose). (various references)

Frisian		ôfriede (advise against, dissuade from). (various references)

German		abraten (advise against, discouragement, dissuade from, dissuasion), abbringen (discourage, discouragement, make smb. change his mind, persuade not to, put off, reclaim, wring). (various references)

Greek		μεταπείθω (dissuasion), αποτρέπω (avert, deter, disincline, dissuasion, foil, prevent, scotch 1, ward off). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"טות לב מן-, ל�"� יא (avert, hinder, prevent). (various references)

Hungarian		lebeszél (dehorn, to bring off, to dissuade, to head off), eltántorít. (various references)

Italian		dissuadere (deter, deterrence, discourage, dissuasion, warn). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		諫臣 (retainer who dares to dissuade his lord), 諫死 (prepared to die in an effort to dissuade one's lord). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		か�"し�" (admiration, alarming, careful investigation, concern, deplorable, favour, interest, reporting after careful investigation, retainer who dares to dissuade his lord, satisfaction, Well done!), か�"し (a watch, article, being on the lookout, Chinese astrology, Chinese poetry, dissuasion, forceps, guarding, inspection, looking around or about, observation, prepared to die in an effort to dissuade one's lord, ring finger, sexagenary cycle, surveillance). (various references)

Manx		coyrlaghey noi (dehort). (various references)

Papiamen		deskonsehá (advise against, dissuade from). (various references)

Pig Latin		issuadeday

Portuguese		divergente (devious, divers). (various references)

Romanian		sfãtui sã nu facã ceva (dissuade from). (various references)

Russian		отговаривать (deter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odvratiti (answer back, avert, discourage, distract, divert, head off, turn away), odgovoriti (answer, discourage, re-join, replicate, reply). (various references)

Spanish		disuadir (deter, discourage, jockey, out-argue, put off, talk out). (various references)

Swedish		avråda (advice against something). (various references)

Turkish		vazgeçirmek (argue smb. out of smth., choke back, choke off, discourage, talk smb. out of smth., wean, wean away from), kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), caydırmak (argue smb. out of smth., deter, sidetrack, talk smb. out of smth., wean away from), aklını çelmek (allure, beguile, bias, cozen, draw in, entice away, infatuate, persuade, prepossess, suborn, sway). (various references)

Turkmen		ret etmek (deflect, reject). (various references)

Ukrainian		відраджувати, не радити. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	avocare, avocate. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dissuade": dissuaded, dissuader, dissuaders, dissuades. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dissuade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dessau, dissaude, disuade, tissuade. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dissuade" (pronounced di'swā"d)
4	-s w ā" d	persuade, suede, swayed, unswayed.
3	-w ā" d	outweighed, Wade, weighed.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: disused.
	-2 letters: adieus, asides, daises, dassie, dissed, disuse, issued, sudsed.
	-3 letters: adieu, aided, aides, aside, assed, deads, duads, dudes, ideas, issue, sades, sadis, saids, sided, sides, sudds.
	-4 letters: adds, aide, aids, dads, dais, dead, died, dies, diss, duad, dude, duds, dues, idea, ides, sade, sadi, said, seas, seis, side, sudd, suds, sued, sues, used.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-i-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: disabused, dissuaded, dissuader, dissuades.
	+2 letters: dissuaders.
	+3 letters: misadjusted.
	+4 letters: dissimulated.
	+5 letters: disaccustomed, misunderstand, undissociated.
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