encourage

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to persuade someone to do something
persuadeIf she doesn't want to do it, nothing you say will persuade her.
convinceThe lawyer convinced the jury of the man's innocence.
talk someone intoShe managed to talk me into going along.
talk someone out ofI think I've talked him out of leaving the country.
dissuadeI tried to dissuade her from leaving.
cajoleHe really knows how to cajole people into doing what he wants.
Clever salesmanship can persuade you to buy things you don't really want.巧妙的销售术能说服你购买自己实际上不想要的东西。
We only need one more player for this game - can you persuade your sister to join in?我们这项比赛只差一个选手——你能说服你姐姐参加吗？
I have a suspicion that he only asked me out because my brother persuaded him to.我怀疑是我哥哥说服他约我出去的。
Johnson was influential in persuading the producers to put money into the film.
She used her womanly charms to persuade him to change his mind.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Urging & persuading
ambulance-chasing
argumentation
badger
be/go on at someoneidiom
blag
blagger
get (something) through (to someone)
go on
hortatory
hustle
incitation
incitement
jockey
sales pitch
sway
uncoerced
unconvinced
unpersuaded
unpersuasive
unsalable

Examples of persuaded

persuaded

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It was not only husbands who persuaded women to return.
Perhaps its publishers could be persuaded to bring it out in paperback to make these individual essays more readily available to researchers and students alike.
This bit of deception, even if it was only self-deception, disturbed many of us, and we persuaded him to stop.
Some interviewees, as noted, had personal experiences of limited stays with their children abroad, and these had persuaded them not to migrate.
As noted, these are the very individuals most likely to be persuaded by political messages encountered in a soft news context.
Nobody has won, nobody has persuaded the other, nobody has solved any problem, and yet everybody is happy.
Finally, the inspirational quality of the grounds we consider plays a role : we must be persuaded by something before we can believe it.
Gradually, they persuaded themselves that this condemnation was the safeguard of ' ' true ' ' religious liberty.
However, we are also powerfully persuaded by ideas which are hard to reconcile with it.
Not everyone is persuaded by the 'expansionary fiscal consolidation' thesis and some studies suggest that restrictive public expenditure regimes do exacerbate social tensions.
What persuaded him to change his mind and back up a project of no financial benefit to him?
Actually it did not take me too long to be persuaded.
The threat of violence persuaded the three to leave.
Rather, it persuaded them to regard even their highest principles as species of hypothesis.
Conversely, if enough people are persuaded to avoid that new way of saying it, the new way will fade out.
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