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persuade someone not to do something- The ad features a woman dying of lung throat cancer in an attempt to dissuade people from starting to smoke cigarettes.
dissuade = persuade someone not to do something
- The sanctions are intended to dissuade other countries from developing nuclear weapons.
- So she refused to let her mother dissuade her.Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis
- ...and refuse to let anyone dissuade him from it.Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis
- The ship's captain tried to dissuade me from disembarking, talking of Barbary pirates and uncouth Spanish exiles.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- You would not dissuade me, Kate; now would you?'Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
- I wasn't about to try and dissuade the Powers-That-Be.Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- Convince him, dissuade him from jokes and tricks, and we'll call the whole thing even.John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
- I try to dissuade him from it, but he refuses to speak to me.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- You are to understand, Miss Bennet, that I came here with the determined resolution of carrying my purpose; nor will I be dissuaded from it.Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
- Gramps insisted on being with her while she underwent tests, though an intern had tried to dissuade him.Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons
- I saw no reason to dissuade them.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- And he'd tell him in spite of all Ashley could do to dissuade him.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- I felt I could not dissuade her, even though her speech already had a glutinous, slurred quality.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son.Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
- Eragon wanted to ask, but the sorrow in Oromis's eyes dissuaded him.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- My parents never would have tried to dissuade them.Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
- Many of the crowd would have dissuaded him from touching a document so suspicious; but Higg was resolute in the service of his benefactress.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- My guardian did not seek to dissuade me, and I went.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- Yet I feel that you must go to the tower and try to dissuade the wizard.R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
dissuade = persuade someone not to do something
dissuade = stop
dissuade = persuade someone not to do something