dissuade
to persuade someone not to do something
Word origin: From Latin dissuadere, to advise against.
Dissuade in a sentence
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Her mentor tried to dissuade her from quitting so abruptly.
No amount of statistical evidence could dissuade the board from its risky expansion plan.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “dissuade” well
Dissuade means to talk someone out of a course of action and typically takes from: to dissuade her from resigning. It is the direct counterpart of persuade.
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