Dictionary Entry
dissuade
dissuade is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).
- 2transitive verb
To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.
- 3verb
turn away from by persuasion
"Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
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