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dissuade 音标拼音: [dɪsw'ed] vt. 劝阻 劝阻 dissuade v 1: turn away from by persuasion; " Negative campaigning will only dissuade people" [ synonym: { dissuade}, { deter}] [ ant: { persuade}] Dissuade \ Dis* suade"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Dissuaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Dissuading}.] [ L. dissuadere, dissuasum; dis- suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. dissuader. See { Suasion}.] 1. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade ( one from a course). [ Obsolescent] [ 1913 Webster] Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. -- Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster] War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose. [ 1913 Webster] I have tried what is possible to dissuade him. -- Mad. D' Arblay. [ 1913 Webster] 22 Moby Thesaurus words for " dissuade": admonish, advise, caution, counsel, cry out against, daunt, derail, deter, discourage, divert, exhort, expostulate, frighten off, intimidate, kid out of, prick, remonstrate, talk out of, throw off, unpersuade, urge, warn
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