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Dissuade


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Dissuade is to advice or persuade against something.

Dissuade is a verb.

Synonyms: discourage, disincline, advise against.

Antonyms: encourage, persuade, advise in favor of.


Sample Usage

It would take a great deal of money and a corner office to dissuade Mr.Naveen from retiring early.

I have made up a decision and no one can dissuade me from my plan.

We successfully dissuaded our eighteen-year-old daughter from getting married; we persuaded her to wait until she was at least twenty-four!

Your job is to dissuade our customers from going to another super markets.


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