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词汇 dissuading
释义 dissuading
present participle ofdissuade
dissuade
verb[ T ]
uk /dɪˈsweɪd/ us /dɪˈsweɪd/
to persuade someone not to do something: 劝说…不做某事,劝阻
I tried to dissuade her from leaving.我试图劝说她不要离开。
Synonym
deter
Opposite
persuade
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.
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 dissuading


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


If the industry fails to address their use of older negative stereotypes, they risk alienating the rapidly growing older market and dissuading younger consumers.
That we have witnessed, but so far from dissuading us from the tax, its widespread character constitutes.
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Secondly, under the prices and incomes policy, he has been dissuading local authorities from making certain increases.
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I do not think that there is any possibility of dissuading it from that, because that is what it wants.
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Indeed, creating a new administrative burden could have the unintended effect of dissuading current or potential providers from offering courses, which would be a pity.
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What we must avoid at all costs is dissuading potential lessors from making their accommodation available to lessees.
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Surely picketing is allowed in the sense of dissuading people from entering a building but not in the sense of stopping them physically?
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It is accepted and it is proving effective in dissuading people from drinking and driving.
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However, they may well have had the effect of dissuading many small business men from expansion when opportunities were there.
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We think publicity is an indispensable means for further dissuading companies from operating inadequately maintained equipment.
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Such a rule would go a long way towards dissuading people from re-establishing the trade to the continent in live horses for meat.
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It does not seem that the "ultimate deterrent" acts as any form of deterrent in dissuading people throughout the world from carrying out their activities.
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Clearly the main hope for the future in eradicating smoking lies in dissuading the young from ever starting to smoke.
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That will go a long way towards dissuading skippers from fishing where they should not fish.
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What we ought to be doing is persuading more pensioners to attend for tests rather than dissuading them because the tests will have to be paid for.
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