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All persuade antonyms

per·suade
P p

verb persuade

  • fork out — an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.
  • damping — moistening or wetting
  • abscind — to cut off
  • divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
  • clam up — If someone clams up, they stop talking, often because they are shy or to avoid giving away secrets.
  • cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
  • coerce — If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to.
  • burke — Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
  • measure out — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • decree — A decree is an official order or decision, especially one made by the ruler of a country.
  • clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
  • burked — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
  • deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
  • burking — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
  • deal out — If someone deals out a punishment or harmful action, they punish or harm someone.
  • crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
  • disadvise — (transitive) To advise against; to dissuade from.
  • lean on — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
  • forfend — to defend, secure, or protect.
  • disincline — Opposite of to incline; to make reluctant.
  • choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
  • branched — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
  • factoring — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
  • corked — (of a wine) tainted through having a cork containing excess tannin
  • dichotomized — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomize Having been divided into dichotomous parts.
  • branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
  • dry up — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
  • hold down — 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.
  • dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
  • constipate — to cause constipation in
  • constipating — to cause constipation in; make costive.
  • corking — excellent
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