If you get talked into something, you've been persuaded. If your friends try to persuade you to swan dive into a dangerous ravine, it's time to find some new friends.
To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.
Verb
cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody''s arm; "You can''t persuade me to buy this ugly vase!"
Verb
win approval or support for; "Carry all before one"; "His speech did not sway the voters"
v. t.
To influence or gain over by argument, advice,
entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by
presenting sufficient motives.
v. t.
To try to influence.
v. t.
To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or
suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
v. t.
To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise;
to recommend.
v. i.
To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.
n.
Persuasion.
Persuade
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
We will persuade him, be it possible.2.
Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you.3.
Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you.4.
Persuade
Persuade
To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.
To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.
Persuasion.
Usage Examples
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
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Other Usage ExamplesI cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
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