to dissuade
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6.0
- verb
- /dɪˈsweɪd/
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disuadir (a alguien de)
- I tried to dissuade him from investing in that risky startup.
- try to dissuade
- an attempt to dissuade
- efforts to dissuade
And it obviously didn't dissuade him from trying again.
- And it obviously didn't dissuade him from trying again.
- So this was what would Godfather do if the objective were to dissuade Assad from future actions?
- But yeah, like, I, I don't, I, I don't mean to dissuade you.
- And also do not let their sort of soothing when you fail dissuade you from continuing to live your life.
- So I say this about people who sometimes let critical people, negative people dissuade you from your goals.
- Some of you may have even seen the new ad campaign that the FDA has launched about, you know, trying to dissuade young people from starting smoking.
- I think that that has to be implemented to to reassure, to threaten, frankly to dissuade and to show that there are penalties for certain activity.
- Or in fact, you know, people tried to dissuade me from doing them, but very few of them require any risk.
- And should you let Schopenhauer's dismissal of Hegel as a charlatan dissuade you from actually studying Hegel or taking him seriously?
- But but can you say that maybe the water will disguise the smell to dissuade other predators or scavengers from finding their food?
- All autocrats, regardless of how friendly they are to the West, should be dissuaded from using repression to defend their power and their privilege.
- That I wouldn't do something that would dissuade them from following through because I would follow through with my own work.
Examples
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Josh starts his car, but the officer dissuades him from leaving by removing his gun.
Fiction book (2001) -
And he says he knew then that nothing was going to dissuade me from trying to be a performer.
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Or in fact, you know, people tried to dissuade me from doing them, but very few of them require any risk.
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I would really try to dissuade you guys from going down that path.
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Is there nothing I can do to dissuade you from this?
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Concerned, she wrote back that same day to dissuade him, asking: "But how will you earn a living?"
Fiction book (1992) -
Lack of access to such a collection of instruments should not dissuade teachers from attempting such a project.
Academic text (1990) -
Don't let the fact that my door's closed dissuade you in any way from entering my office.
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I don't say any of these things to ever dissuade you from pursuing your goals, ever.
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I try to dissuade them from these childish notions, but as you know, art is pain.
Synonyms
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3.5
To try to stop something by making people less willing to do it
120
4.0
Change someone's mind so they do not do something
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5.6
Make someone less likely to do something by making them fear bad results
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6.8
To tell someone firmly to change or improve their behavior
To make someone not want to do something
Antonyms
How Persuasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
dissuade = persuade (semi-transparent) = dis + suade
The prefix 'dis-' suggests negation, but the root 'suade' is not independently recognizable, making it partially opaque.
Etymology
The word dissuade comes from the parts dis- meaning 'away' and suadere meaning 'to advise'. It is like the opposite of persuade, so to dissuade someone is to advise them 'away' from doing something.