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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.

dissuade = persuade someone not to do something

Gallien thought the hitchhiker's scheme was foolhardy and tried repeatedly to dissuade him: "I said the hunting wasn't easy where he was going, that he could go for days without killing any game."
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

dissuade = persuade someone not to do something

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

dissuaded = persuaded not to do something

"Despite our rules, she couldn't be dissuaded," Mrs. Dunningham said.
Mina Baites -- The Silver Music Box

dissuaded = persuaded not to do something

I tried to dissuade these kind people from thinking they could do anything, but I gave them my card and told them they could call me.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy

dissuade = persuade someone not to do something

Gramps insisted on being with her while she underwent tests, though an intern had tried to dissuade him.
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

dissuade = persuade someone not to do something

Athos, according to his system, neither encouraged nor dissuaded him.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

dissuaded = discouraged

His teachers and friends tried to dissuade him, and his father was reluctant to write the speech for him.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

dissuade = persuade someone not to do something

dissuade = stop

...and refuse to let anyone dissuade him from it.
Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis

dissuade = persuade someone not to do something

Elizabeth tried hard to dissuade him from such a scheme, assuring him that Mr. Darcy would consider his addressing him without introduction as an impertinent freedom, rather than a compliment to his aunt; that it was not in the least necessary there should be any notice on either side; and that if it were, it must belong to Mr. Darcy, the superior in consequence, to begin the acquaintance.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

dissuade = persuade someone not to do something

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
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

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