dissuade

See also: dissuadé

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsweɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪd
• Homophone: diswayed

Verb

dissuade (third-person singular simple present dissuades, present participle dissuading, simple past and past participle dissuaded)

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

   Jane dissuaded Martha from committing suicide.

Antonyms

• persuade

Derived terms

• dissuadable
• undissuaded

 

Related terms

• dissuasion
• dissuasive
• dissuasory

Translations

convince not to try or do

• Belarusian: разупэўніваць impf (razupeŭnivacʹ), разупэўніць pf (razupeŭnicʹ)
• Bulgarian: разубеждавам (bg) (razubeždavam), разубедя (razubedja)
• Catalan: dissuadir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勸阻 / 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)
• 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 (ja) (isameru)
• Latin: dissuādeo, dehortor
• Maori: whakapakepake, whakapeau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avskrekke

• Old English: belēan
• Polish: odwieść pf, odwodzić impf, odradzić pf, odradzać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: dissuadir (pt)
• Russian: разубежда́ть (ru) impf (razubeždátʹ), разубеди́ть (ru) pf (razubedítʹ)
• Spanish: disuadir (es)
• Swedish: avskräcka (sv), avråda (sv)
• Tày: can
• Vietnamese: ngăn cản (vi)

See also

• disabuse

French

Verb

dissuade

1. inflection of dissuader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.suˈa.de/, /disˈswa.de/
• Rhymes: -ade
• Hyphenation: dis‧su‧à‧de, dis‧suà‧de

Verb

dissuade

1. third-person singular present indicative of dissuadere

Latin

Verb

dissuādē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dissuādeō

Portuguese

Verb

dissuade

1. inflection of dissuadir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative