Dictionary Entry
persuade
persuade is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 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 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.
- 2transitive verb
To try to influence.
- 3transitive verb
To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
- 4transitive verb
To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend.
- 5intransitive verb
To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.
- 6noun
Persuasion.
- 7verb
cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm
"You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!"
- 8verb
win approval or support for
"Carry all before one"
"His speech did not sway the voters"
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