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All persuade synonyms

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verb persuade

  • assure β€” If you assure someone that something is true or will happen, you tell them that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, often in order to make them less worried.
  • lay it on β€” to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • nobble β€” to drug or disable (a race horse) to prevent its winning a race.
  • importune β€” to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
  • innerve β€” to supply with nervous energy; invigorate; animate.
  • draw β€” to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
  • move β€” to pass from one place or position to another.
  • inching β€” a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
  • give voice to β€” If you give voice to an opinion, a need, or a desire, you express it aloud.
  • wholesaling β€” the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
  • budge β€” If someone will not budge on a matter, or if nothing budges them, they refuse to change their mind or to come to an agreement.
  • allure β€” to entice or tempt (someone) to a person or place or to a course of action; attract
  • bring round β€” to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
  • get to β€” to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • auctioning β€” Present participle of auction.
  • give way β€” manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • call forth β€” to cause (something) to come into action or existence
  • help out β€” to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • got to β€” to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • dunned β€” to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
  • let in on β€” to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • wheedle β€” to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts: We wheedled him incessantly, but he would not consent.
  • locomote β€” to move about, especially under one's own power.
  • convince β€” If someone or something convinces you of something, they make you believe that it is true or that it exists.
  • quarterback β€” a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • get hold of β€” to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • make over β€” to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • occasion β€” a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences: They met on three occasions.
  • innervate β€” to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
  • copping β€” the winding of yarn into a cap from a cone, bobbin, etc.
  • mousetrap β€” a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
  • cinching β€” a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
  • auctioned β€” Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
  • bring around β€” If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • goosed β€” any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
  • exhort β€” Strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.
  • lay on β€” to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • brainwash β€” If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
  • call upon β€” to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
  • instigate β€” to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
  • determine β€” If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.
  • dunning β€” to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
  • worming β€” Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
  • lay it on thick β€” to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • make waves β€” a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
  • incline β€” to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
  • jockey β€” a person who rides horses professionally in races.
  • hawked β€” a noisy effort to clear the throat.
  • enlighten β€” Give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.
  • locomoting β€” to move about, especially under one's own power.
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