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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb dissuade has 1 sense

• dissuade(v = verb.communication) deter - turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
is one way to advise, counsel, rede
Derived forms noun dissuasion₂, noun dissuasion₁, adjective dissuasive₁
Antonym: persuade
Sample sentences:
Sam cannot dissuade Sue
They dissuade him to write the letter

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THESAURUS

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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dissuade

Dissuasion

VB dissuade, dehort, cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate, warn, contraindicate, disincline, indispose, shake, stagger, dispirit, discourage, dishearten, deter, repress, hold back, keep back, render averse, repel, turn aside, wean from, act as a drag, throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench, deprecate, disenchant, disillusion, deflate, take down a peg, pop one's balloon, prick one's balloon, burst one's bubble, disabuse (correction).

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