All coax synonyms

verb coax

• wheedle — to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts: We wheedled him incessantly, but he would not consent.
• cajole — If you cajole someone into doing something, you get them to do it after persuading them for some time.
• tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
• induce — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
• tempt — to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
• barter — If you barter goods, you exchange them for other goods, rather than selling them for money.
• flatter — to make flat.
• influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
• importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
• inveigle — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
• soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• beguile — If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
• allure — to entice or tempt (someone) to a person or place or to a course of action; attract
• decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
• pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
• wangle — to bring about, accomplish, or obtain by scheming or underhand methods: to wangle an invitation.
• blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
• urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
• lure — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
• sweet-talk — to use cajoling words.
• blarney — Blarney is things someone says that are flattering and amusing but probably untrue, and which you think they are only saying in order to please you or to persuade you to do something.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• worm — Write-Once Read-Many
• soft-soap — Informal. to cajole; flatter.
• jawbone — a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
• persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
• win over — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
• charm — Charm is the quality of being pleasant or attractive.
• butter up — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
• come on — You say 'Come on' to someone to encourage them to do something they do not much want to do.
• arm-twist — to subject to arm-twisting: The unions arm-twisted the government into negotiating by threatening widespread strikes.
• rope in — a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
• talk into — persuade
• work on — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.