dissuade

See also: dissuadé

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French dissuader, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dissuādeō (“I urge differently”, “I advise against”, “I dissuade”), from dis- (“away from”, “asunder”) + suādeō (“I recommend”, “I advise”, “I urge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsweɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

1. (transitive) To convince not to try or do.

   Jane dissuaded Martha from committing suicide.

Antonyms

• persuade

Related terms

• dissuasion
• dissuasive

Translations

convince not to try or do

• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: разубеждавам (bg) (razubeždavam), разубедя (razubedja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勸阻／劝阻 (zh) (quànzǔ), 劝阻 (zh) (quànzǔ)

• Czech: rozmluvit
• Danish: tale fra, fraråde
• Dutch: uit het hoofd praten, afbrengen (nl) van, afraden (nl)
• Esperanto: deadmoni
• Finnish: saada luopumaan, kääntää jonkun pää (figuratively), saada toisiin ajatuksiin
• French: dissuader (fr)
• Galician: disuadir
• German: abbringen (de), abraten (de)
• Greek: αποτρέπω (el) (apotrépo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: lebeszél (hu)
• Italian: dissuadere (it)
• Japanese: 思いとどまらせる (おもいとどまらせる, omoitodomaraseru), 諫める (isameru)
• Latin: dissuādeo, dehortor
• Maori: whakapakepake
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avskrekke

• Old English: belēan
• Portuguese: dissuadir (pt)
• Russian: разубежда́ть (ru) impf (razubeždátʹ), разубеди́ть (ru) pf (razubedítʹ)
• Spanish: disuadir (es)
• Swedish: avskräcka (sv), avråda (sv)

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French

Verb

dissuade

1. first-person singular present indicative of dissuader
2. third-person singular present indicative of dissuader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of dissuader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of dissuader
5. second-person singular imperative of dissuader

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Italian

Verb

dissuade

1. third-person singular present indicative of dissuadere

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dissuādē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dissuādeō

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Portuguese

Verb

dissuade

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