Synonyms for persuade
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Verb
1. Convince — to successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal…
convince, move, sway, get, entice, coax, tempt, prevail upon, induce, urge, draw, push, win over, bring over, gain over US, advise, wheedle, exhort, influence, incite, procure, assure
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Definitions
- v. 1
To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.
That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
Related words
- Word family
- persuadable persuader persuasion persuasive persuasory
Forms
- Past participle
- persuaded
e.g. persuaded → convinced, moved, swayed, getten…
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To incline or influence is to bend another's wishes toward our own; to persuade is to draw them quite over.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- convince She couldn't convince him to write a song for her.
- sway From the time he got up, his beliefs began to sway.
- entice He hopes to entice her into doing what he wants.
- coax Yanni tried to coax Skura into sending him money.
- argue Mennad and Baya started to argue a whole lot more.
By length
- 3 letters
- get1
- 4 letters
- move1, draw1, push1, urge1, sway1, coax1
- 5 letters
- argue2, tempt1
- 6 letters
- advise2, assure2, induce2, entice2, incite2, exhort2
- 7 letters
- prevail2, procure2, wheedle
- 8 letters
- convince2
- 9 letters
- influence3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (argue2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- persuader
- Italiano
- persuadere
- Español
- persuadir
- Deutsch
- einreden