Persuade

Definitions: Persuade

Persuade

Verb

1. Win approval or support for; "Carry all before one".

2. Cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "persuade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Persuade

Belief

Know, know for certain; have know, make no doubt; doubt not; be, rest assured; Adjective: persuade oneself, assure oneself, satisfy oneself; make up one's mind.

Cause to be believed; Verb: satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure; convince, convict, convert; wean, bring round; bring over, win over; indoctrinate; (teach); cram down the throat; produce conviction, carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to.

Demonstration

Convince, persuade (belief).

Motive

Persuade; prevail with, prevail upon; overcome, carry; bring round to one's senses, bring to one's senses; draw over, win over, gain over, come over, talk over; procure, enlist, engage; invite, court.

Crosswords: Persuade

French (persuades).

Have you ever tried to persuade him that he wasn't Teddy Roosevelt? (Arsenic and Old Lace; writing credit: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa)

Can I persuade you to take a sandwich with you, sir? (Batman Forever; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lee Batchler)

Do you think you can persuade the court that you're not responsible by reason of lunacy? (Procès, Le; writing credit: Orson Welles)

Yes, that's the conspiracy: to persuade us all that the whole world is crazy, formless, meaningless, absurd. (Procès, Le; writing credit: Orson Welles)

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity. (Red Dragon; writing credit: Ted Tally)

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Books

• Change the Way You Persuade (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Powerful Presentation Skills: How to Get a Group's Attention, Hold People's Interest and Persuade Them to Act (reference)

• Say It Like Shakespeare: How to Give a Speech Like Hamlet, Persuade Like Henry V, and Other Secrets from the World's Greatest Communicator (reference)

• Triggers: 30 Sales Tools you can use to Control the Mind of your Prospect to Motivate, Influence and Persuade. (reference)

• You'Ve Got to Be Believed to Be Heard: How to Persuade People to Really Listen to What You Have to Say [ABRIDGED] (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• How to Persuade, Answer Questions, and Accept Awards (reference)

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Music

• Can I Persuade You (reference)

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There are ways to persuade him to abandon it.Credit: Library of Congress.

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And a little after, Therefore all kings that are not tyrants, or perjured, will be glad to bound themselves within the limits of their laws; and they that persuade them the contrary, are vipers, and pests both against them and the commonwealth. (Second Treatise of Government)

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I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do.

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Health

Genetic counselors might then persuade couples who are carriers not to have children. (references)

Business

One such step was to organize delegations to the U.S., Europe and Asia to persuade electronic companies to relocate to Baja California. (references)

The onus is then on the manufacturer to persuade doctors to prescribe the more expensive (usually branded) generic rather than a cheaper version. (references)

Foreign firms may want to consider cooperating with local health care professionals to persuade HIRA for a better price based on expected clinical benefits for patients based on medical practices in Korea. (references)

Civil Liberties

Central African Republic

In December in cooperation with U.N. agencies, the Government formed a Committee of Reception and Welcome to persuade the civilian refugees in the DRC to return to the country. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

He used his influence as Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to persuade other Arab and Islamic nations to join the coalition. (references)

Lithuania

These measures were not enough to persuade voters in the October 25 and November 10, 1996 rounds of parliamentary elections. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

There continued to be charges that magistrates and police, under pressure from provincial and federal officials to achieve high conviction rates, persuade detainees to plead guilty without informing them of the consequences. (references)

Nigeria

Wealthier defendants employ numerous delaying tactics and in many cases used financial inducements to persuade judges to grant numerous continuances. (references)

Cameroon

There also were reports that a prominent Member of Parliament (M.P.) promised vacations, government positions, and cash to various members of the C9 to persuade them to stop their weekly protests, which ended with the arrest of Ousmanou. (references)

Minorities

Slovak Republic

Several Roma organizations launched a public relations campaign to explain the importance for the Roma population to be truthful about their ethnicity in the census; these organizations feared that non-Roma commissioners would persuade Roma to claim another ethnicity. (references)

Political Economy

Western Sahara

The initial U.N voter identification effort ended in December 1995 and, after several fruitless efforts to persuade the two parties to cooperate, the U.N. Security Council formally suspended the identification process in 1996. The United Nations and friendly governments continued to urge the two parties to seek a political solution to the conflict. (references)

Political Rights

Bhutan

The Assembly occasionally rejects the King's recommendations or delays implementing them, but in general, the King has enough influence to persuade the Assembly to approve legislation that he considers essential or to withdraw proposals he opposes. (references)

Worker Rights

Nigeria

In addition there is evidence that Nigerian crime syndicates may use indebtedness, threats of beatings and rape, physical injury to the victim's family, arrest, and deportation to persuade those forced into sex work from attempting to escape or from contacting police and NGO's for assistance. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "persuade": easy to persuade ♦ persuade belief ♦ persuade from ♦ persuade into ♦ persuade not to ♦ persuade oneself ♦ persuade out of ♦ persuade smb. not to do smth. ♦ persuade to ♦ persuade to do. Additional references.

Ending with "persuade": over-persuade.

Afrikaan

bepraat (discuss). (various references)

Albanian

i mbush mendjen (coax, convince, inveigle, prevail), bind (assure, bring, bring over, convince, expostulate, get, get round, induce, lead, make smb. listen to reason, outrun, prevail, prevail upon, reassure, remonstrate, rub in). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قنع (bring, get smb. to do smth., hide, incline, induce, mask, move, push through, sell, win over), ‏حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, hurry, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), ‏إقتنع (be content with, be convinced, get it into one's head). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увещавам (admonish, exhort, expostulate, reason with, remonstrate, urge), убеждавам (admonish, argue, assure, coax, convince, exhort, induce, lead, press, prevail, satisfy, talk over, urge, win), скланям (bring round, decline, induce, inflect, resolve, win, win over, win round), предумвам (bring over, cajole, get round, induce, lead). (various references)

Chinese 

說 (to say, to speak), 说服 (Convince, Convinced, Convincing, Persuaded, Persuading, Persuasion), 勸說 (advise, persuasion). (various references)

Czech

přesvìdèit (convince, satisfy), přemluvit (bring round, cajole, coax, prevail, talk, talk round). (various references)

Danish

overtyde (convince), overtale. (various references)

Dutch

overtuigen (convince). (various references)

Esperanto

persvadi, konvinki (convince). (various references)

Faeroese

sannføra (convince). (various references)

Farsi 

وادارکردن (Compel, Enforce, Have, Impel, Induce, Instigate, Oblige), ترغیب کردن (Harp, Put), بران داشتن (Impel). (various references)

Finnish

vakuuttaa (assure, convince, insure, protest), suostuttaa. (various references)

French

persuader, convaincre. (various references)

German

überzeugen (be convincing, bring over, carry conviction, convince, satisfy, sell), überreden (cajole, coax, convince, talk into, talk round, to persuade, to persuade (of, wheedle). (various references)

Greek 

πείθω (convince, convince of, determine, persuasion, suasion, sway, talk into). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשכנע (convince, explain away, win over), לשדל (cajole, coax, entice, seduce, tempt, wheedle), להסית (egg on, entice, foment, incite, inflame, instigate, seduce, tempt, whet on), לדבר אל לבו (cogitate, ponder). (various references)

Hungarian

rábeszél (to bring round, to coax, to exhort, to persuade, to talk over, to talk round), meggyõz (bring round, convince). (various references)

Icelandic

sannfæra (convince). (various references)

Indonesian

merayu (seduce, tease), membujukkan, membujuk (cajole, candied, canvass, coax, endlong, gloze, talk a person into, wile). (various references)

Italian

convincere (argue, convince, convince oneself, get, prevail, reason, urge on), persuadere (argue, bring, cajole, coax, convince, convince oneself, get, induce, persuade oneself, win). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

説く　 (to advocate, to explain, to persuade, to preach), 説きつける (to persuade), 説き付ける (to persuade), 説き勧める (to persuade), 説く (to advocate, to explain, to persuade, to preach), 諭す (to admonish, to persuade, to remonstrate, to warn), 言い聞かす (to instruct, to persuade, to tell someone to do something, to warm), 言い聞かせる (to instruct, to persuade, to tell someone to do something, to warn), 泣き落とす (to persuade by tears), 拝み倒す (to beg, to entreat repeatedly, to implore, to persuade someone to consent), 口説き落とす (to persuade, to prevail upon, to talk someone into doing, to win a woman's heart, to win over). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おがみたおす (to beg, to entreat repeatedly, to implore, to persuade someone to consent), なきおとす (to persuade by tears, to use tears to get one's way), くどきおとす (to persuade, to prevail upon, to talk someone into doing, to win a woman's heart, to win over), さとす (to admonish, to persuade, to remonstrate, to warn), いいきかす (to instruct, to persuade, to tell someone to do something, to warm), いいきかせる (to instruct, to persuade, to tell someone to do something, to warn), ときすすめる (to persuade), ときつける (to persuade), とく (gain, hide, interest, profit, shelter, shield, to advocate, to answer, to dissolve, to explain, to persuade, to preach, to solve, to untie). (various references)

Korean 

설득하십시요. (various references)

Malay

bujuk ... membujuk. (various references)

Manx

cur er (affectation, affectedness, apply, ascribe, compel, devolve, don, impose, imposition, induce, inflict, lead, oblige, on occasion, turn on), coyrlaghey (advise, advocate, counsel, exhort, exhortation, recommend, suggest), breigey (allure, beguile, blandish, cajole, cajolery, coax, decoy, entice, enticement, inveigle, inveiglement, lure, seduce, seduction, wheedle). (various references)

Norwegian

overbevise (convince). (various references)

Papiamen

konvensé (convince). (various references)

Pig Latin

ersuadepay

Portuguese

persuadir (advise, bring, cajole, coax, cog, convince, counsel, dispose of, get around, induce, insinuate, lead, move, post, seduce, talk into, urge, woo), convencer (convince, get away, talk into, talk out). (various references)

Romanian

convinge (blarney, bring, bring over, coax, convince, cozen into, determine, draw, get, induce, reason, satisfy, settle). (various references)

Russian 

уговорить, убедить (bring round), упросить (prevail upon), отговорить. (various references)

Scottish

thoir (bring, compel, fetch, get, give, lay hold of, pick up, take, take : thoir air). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ubediti (convince), navesti (adduce, bring up, cite, induce, lead, lead on, maneuver, manoeuvre, plead, prompt, quote, suggest), nagovoriti (blab, blandish, cajole, coax, inveigle, over-persuade, prevail, talk into). (various references)

Spanish

convencer (convince, keep off, prevail on, prevail upon, satisfy, talk into, win over, win round), persuadir (argue, beat down, bring, bring around, bring round, convince, get, get round, induce, jockey, lead, lure out). (various references)

Swedish

övertyga (convince, satisfy), övertala (argue, prevail, prevail upon, talk round). (various references)

Turkish

razı etmek (argue smb. into smth., bring, bring over, cajole, cheat, fast-talk, prevail on, prevail upon), kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, 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), inandırmak (assure, assure smb. that, convince, make believe, satisfy, sell smb. on, talk smb. into smth., wash), ikna etmek (argue, argue smb. into smth., assure, bring, bring over, bring round, cajole, coax, convince, convince smb. of smth., dispose, draw, entice, fast-talk, have a way with, induce, influence, interest, jolly, prevail on, prevail upon, satisfy, sell smb. on, wheedle, win, win smb. round), aklını çelmek (allure, beguile, bias, cozen, dissuade, draw in, entice away, infatuate, prepossess, suborn, sway). (various references)

Turkmen 

gцwnetmek (talk into). (various references)

Ukranian 

умовляти (admonish, blandish, cajole, expostulate, ply, reassure, tempt, woo, word), відмовляти (debar, deny, disallow, discourage, malfunction, notice, refuse, say no, withhold). (various references)

Welsh

perswadio, darbwyllo (convince), cymell (actuate, induce, press, urge). (various references)

adduco, exorabit, exorare, exoraret, exoratio, exoratione, exoraverunt, expugna, expugnabant, expugnabantur, expugnabat, expugnabimus, expugnabit, expugnanda, expugnandam, expugnantem, expugnantes, expugnare, expugnarent, expugnari, expugnasset, expugnate, expugnatisque, expugnaverunt, expugnavimus, expugnavit, expugnemus, expugnes, flectamus, flectat, flectebant, flectebat, flectebatur, flecteret, flecteris, flectet, flectetur, flectitur, flecto, flexis, flexo, flexuram, flexus, inducere, inpellat, inpellens, inpellentur, inpelleris, inpulerit, inpulit, inpulsus, persuadere, persuaderi, persuadet, persuasa, persuaserunt, persuasi, persuasio, persuasis, persuasitque, persuaso, persuasum, suade, suadeamus, suadebant, suadebat, suadebimus, suademus, suadendum, suadens, suadensque, suadeo, suadere, suades, suadibilis, suaserunt, suasi, suasisset, suasit, suasuram. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "persuade": persuaded, persuader, persuaders, persuades. (additional references)

Words ending with "persuade": overpersuade. (additional references)

Words containing "persuade": overpersuaded, overpersuades, unpersuaded. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Persuade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Persae, perseid, Pershad, persicae, persuave, persude, persued, persvade, perswade, Pertusato, pursaude, pursuade. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: perdues, perused, respade, speared, supered.

-2 letters: drapes, drupes, dupers, erased, padres, pardee, pareus, parsed, paused, pauser, perdue, perdus, peruse, pesade, prudes, purdas, pureed, purees, pursed, rasped, reaped, reseau, reseda, reused, rupees, seared, serape, spader, spared, spread, urease.

-3 letters: aedes, apers, apres, asper, aures, dares, dears, deeps, deers, drape, drees, drupe, druse, duper, dupes.

+1 letter: depurates, persuaded, persuader, persuades, pleasured.

+2 letters: departures, persuaders, predaceous, repudiates, superadded, uppercased.

+3 letters: displeasure, loudspeaker, pasteurised, pasteurized, persuadable, premeasured, repurchased, superfatted, superharden, superheated, supersedeas, underpasses, unpersuaded, unseparated.

+4 letters: deuteranopes, displeasures, disreputable, loudspeakers, mousetrapped, overpersuade, prepurchased, quadricepses, reduplicates, stepdaughter, subepidermal, supercharged, superhardens, upwardnesses.

+5 letters: deuteranopias, doublespeaker, gelandesprung, overpersuaded, overpersuades, peradventures, predepartures, propaedeutics, pseudepigraph, stepdaughters, subdepartment, superabounded, superannuated, supercalender, superelevated, superhardened, superordinate, superovulated, underemphases, underemphasis, underpayments, understrapper, unpasteurized.

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