Dissuade - English meaning

Dissuade – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Persuade (someone) not to take a particular course of action.
Usage examples:
His friends tried to dissuade him from flying
Synonims:
Discourage Deter Prevent Disincline Turn aside Divert Sidetrack Talk out of Persuade against Persuade not to Argue out of Put off Stop Scare off Warn off Advise against Urge against Advise/ur

verb
To persuade someone not to do something
Usage examples:
The group hopes to dissuade congress from cutting funds for health programs.

Dissuade translation into English

Dissuade: translate from English into Chinese

劝阻

Dissuade: translate from English into Dutch

Ontmoedigen, Ontraden, Afraden

Dissuade: translate from English into French

Dissuader

Dissuade: translate from English into German

Abbringen, Abraten

Dissuade: translate from English into Hindi

विरत करना, रोकना, विस्र्द्ध सलाह करना, न करने के लिए समझाना, मना करना

Dissuade: translate from English into Italian

Dissuadere, Distogliere, Smuovere, Rimuovere

Dissuade: translate from English into Korean

설득, 그만두게 하다

Dissuade: translate from English into Russian

Отговорить, Отговаривать, Разубеждать, Отсоветовать, Разуверять

Dissuade: translate from English into Spanish

Disuadir, Retraer, Desaconsejar, Desviar

Word origin

late 15th century (in the sense ‘advise against’): from Latin dissuadere, from dis- (expressing reversal) + suadere ‘advise, persuade’.

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Dissuade – similar words

dissuades

verb
Persuade (someone) not to take a particular course of action.
Usage examples:
His friends tried to dissuade him from flying

verb
To persuade someone not to do something
Usage examples:
The group hopes to dissuade congress from cutting funds for health programs.

Dissuades - all meanings in English

dissuaded

verb
Persuade (someone) not to take a particular course of action.
Usage examples:
His friends tried to dissuade him from flying

verb
Past simple and past participle of dissuade
Usage examples:
I tried to dissuade her from leaving.

Dissuaded - all meanings in English

Dissuade synonims

deter

verb
Discourage (someone) from doing something by instilling doubt or fear of the consequences.
Usage examples:
Only a health problem would deter him from seeking re-election

verb
To prevent or discourage someone from doing something
Usage examples:
High prices are deterring a lot of young couples from buying houses., the company says this alarm i…

verb
To prevent someone from doing something or to make someone less enthusiastic about doing something
Usage examples:
Deter sb from doing sth high prices deter many young people from entering the property market., peo…

Deter - all meanings in English

discourage

verb
Cause (someone) to lose confidence or enthusiasm.
Usage examples:
Tedious regulations could discourage investors

verb
To cause someone to feel less confident or less hopeful
Usage examples:
She sometimes got discouraged about her social life, which was going nowhere, she felt., we tried t…

Discourage - all meanings in English

divert

verb
Cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another.
Usage examples:
A scheme to divert water from the river to irrigate agricultural land

verb
Turn aside; turn away from

verb
To cause something or someone to turn in a different direction
Usage examples:
Our flight was diverted from san francisco to oakland because of the fog., the administration had t…

Divert - all meanings in English

prevent

prɪˈvent

verb
Keep (something) from happening.
Usage examples:
Action must be taken to prevent further accidents

verb
To stop something from happening or someone from doing something
Usage examples:
The police tried to prevent him from leaving., can this type of accident be prevented?, fortunately…

Prevent - all meanings in English

sidetrack

ˈsaɪd.træk

verb
Cause (someone) to be distracted from an immediate or important issue.
Usage examples:
He does not let himself get sidetracked by fads and trends

noun
A minor path or track.
Usage examples:
The horse took a sidetrack which led uphill

verb
To direct (someone) away from an activity or subject toward another one that is often less important
Usage examples:
Rhonda was looking for an envelope and got sidetracked reading some old letters.

Sidetrack - all meanings in English

stop

verb
(of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen.
Usage examples:
His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun

noun
A cessation of movement or operation.
Usage examples:
All business came to a stop

verb
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense

Stop - all meanings in English

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