persuade
pronunciation
How to pronounce persuade in British English:
UK [pəˈsweɪd]
How to pronounce persuade in American English:
US [pərˈsweɪd]
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- Verb:
- win approval or support for
- cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm
Word Origin
- persuade
- persuade: [16] The -suade element of persuade goes back to Latin suādēre ‘advise, urge’, a descendant of the same Indo-European base (*swād-) as produced English assuage [14], suave [16], and sweet. Addition of the intensive prefix per- produced persuādēre, source of English persuade; while negation of suādēre with dis- has given English dissuade [15].=> assuage, suave, sweet
- persuade (v.)
- 1510s, from Middle French persuader (14c.), from Latin persuadere "to bring over by talking," (see persuasion). Related: Persuaded; persuading.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Talkback : have you ever had to persuade employees to go along with an unpopular strategy ?
- 2. One challenge metabolon faces is that it could be hard to persuade doctors to use its tools . "
- 3. But unless he can persuade the courts to undo the chriscraft deal , murdoch looks like a loser .
- 4. I had to persuade my parents to sign the papers because I wasn 't yet 18 .
- 5. Directors persuade actresses to lock lips with actors they hate .