All persuade synonyms
perΒ·suade
P p 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.