It still amazes me what she could coax out of table scraps.
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Coax
//koʊks//
Synonyms for "coax" (151 found)
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3 entriesderived
3 entriesform of
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
80 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَمَلَّقَ verb (persuade gradually)
Bulgarian
3 entries- коаксиален кабел adj (coaxial cable)
- склонявам verb (persuade gradually)
- уговарям verb (persuade gradually)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 氹 verb (persuade gradually)
- 誘哄 /诱哄 verb (persuade gradually)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 哄 verb (persuade gradually)
- 誘哄 /诱哄 verb (persuade gradually)
Czech
4 entries- navést verb (manipulate carefully into position)
- přemlouvat verb (persuade gradually)
- přemluvit verb (persuade gradually)
- přesvědčit verb (persuade gradually)
Danish
4 entries- coaxkabel adj (coaxial cable)
- lirke verb (manipulate carefully into position)
- lokke verb (persuade gradually)
- snakke godt for verb (persuade gradually)
Dutch
4 entries- coaxiale kabel adj (coaxial cable)
- coaxkabel adj (coaxial cable)
- overhalen verb (persuade gradually)
- verleiden verb (manipulate carefully into position)
Esperanto
1 entries- kaĵoli verb (persuade gradually)
Finnish
4 entries- koksu adj (coaxial cable)
- maanitella verb (persuade gradually)
- sovitella verb (manipulate carefully into position)
- suostutella verb (persuade gradually)
French
2 entries- amadouer verb (persuade gradually)
- cajoler verb (persuade gradually)
German
4 entries- Koax adj (coaxial cable)
- Koaxkabel adj (coaxial cable)
- beschwatzen verb (persuade gradually)
- bezirzen verb (persuade gradually)
Greek
4 entries- ομοαξωνικό adj (coaxial cable)
- καλοπιάνω verb (manipulate carefully into position)
- καταφέρνω verb (persuade gradually)
- πείθω verb (persuade gradually)
Italian
4 entries- coassiale adj (coaxial cable)
- adulare verb (persuade gradually)
- coccolare verb (persuade gradually)
- convincere verb (persuade gradually)
Japanese
3 entries- 丸め込む verb (persuade gradually)
- 強請る verb (persuade gradually)
- 誑す verb (persuade gradually)
Latin
1 entries- sublectō verb (persuade gradually)
Māori
2 entries- pati verb (persuade gradually)
- patipati verb (persuade gradually)
Norwegian
1 entries- lirke verb (manipulate carefully into position)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lokke verb (persuade gradually)
Portuguese
1 entries- aliciar verb (persuade gradually)
Russian
3 entries- увещева́ть verb (persuade gradually)
- угова́ривать verb (persuade gradually)
- уговори́ть verb (persuade gradually)
Spanish
4 entries- coaccionar verb (persuade gradually)
- coaccionar verb (manipulate carefully into position)
- coactar verb (persuade gradually)
- engatusar verb (persuade gradually)
Swedish
1 entries- lirka verb (persuade gradually)
Thai
2 entries- ชักจูง verb (persuade gradually)
- เกลี้ยกล่อม verb (persuade gradually)
Turkish
3 entries- ikna etmek verb (persuade gradually)
- tatlı sözle kandırmak verb (persuade gradually)
- tavlamak verb (persuade gradually)
Vietnamese
3 entries- dỗ verb (persuade gradually)
- phỉnh verb (persuade gradually)
- tán verb (persuade gradually)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
It had seemed to me sometimes that she liked to be alone with me, or to coax me out for a walk with her, but I had never thought anything of that.
Source: tatoeba (6957960)
The cork is jammed into the neck pretty bad. If you have a knife with a really thin blade, I might be able to coax it out.
Source: tatoeba (8975213)
Yanni tried to coax Skura into sending him money.
Source: tatoeba (9388284)
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