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- Dictionarydissuade/dɪˈsweɪd/
verb
- 1. persuade (someone) not to take a particular course of action: "his friends tried to dissuade him from flying"
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to persuade someone not to do something: The group hopes to dissuade Congress from cutting funds for health programs. (Definition of dissuade from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of dissuade. dissuade. I have seen other martial arts instructors use similar stratagems to dissuade unwanted students.
The meaning of DISSUADE is to advise (a person) against something. How to use dissuade in a sentence.
to persuade someone not to do something: The group hopes to dissuade Congress from cutting funds for health programs. (Definition of dissuade from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of dissuade. dissuade. For example, plenty of people have gut reactions and intuitions that dissuade them from flying.
Dissuade definition: to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from). See examples of DISSUADE used in a sentence.
When you dissuade someone, you convince that person not to do something: “When Caroline saw Peter's broken leg, she tried to dissuade him from going on the ski trip.” Remember the meaning of dissuade by comparing it to its more common relative persuade.
If you dissuade someone from doing or believing something, you persuade them not to do or believe it. [ formal ] Doctors had tried to dissuade patients from smoking.
dissuade somebody (from something/from doing something) to persuade somebody not to do something. I tried to dissuade him from giving up his job. They were going to set off in the fog, but were dissuaded. She made no attempt to dissuade him.
