All dissuade synonyms
dis·suade
D d verb dissuade
- talk out of — dissuade
- prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
- faze — to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
- deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
- warn — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- divert — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- counsel — Counsel is advice.
- prick — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- remonstrate — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- derail — To derail something such as a plan or a series of negotiations means to prevent it from continuing as planned.
- disincline — Opposite of to incline; to make reluctant.
- disadvise — (transitive) To advise against; to dissuade from.
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- put off — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- throw off — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- turn off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- lean on — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- throw cold water on — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.