persuade
/pə(ɹ)ˈsweɪd/ verb B1- To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. · That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
He/she/it persuades · Past persuaded · Past participle persuaded · -ing form persuading
Verb forms
- Base form
- persuade
- He/she/it
- persuades
- Past
- persuaded
- Past participle
- persuaded
- -ing form
- persuading
From the library
When Marilla had eaten her lunch Anne persuaded her to go to bed.
But I knew I should persuade you at last.
“Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room.
The master of the house heard with real sorrow that they were to go so soon, and repeatedly tried to persuade Miss Bennet that it would not be safe for her--that she was not enough recovered; but Jane was firm where she felt herself to be right.
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