She tried to dissuade him from participating in the project.
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Dissuade
Synonyms for "dissuade" (29 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 27 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- разупэўніваць verb (convince not to try or do)
- разупэўніць verb (convince not to try or do)
Bulgarian
2 entries- разубедя verb (convince not to try or do)
- разубеждавам verb (convince not to try or do)
Catalan
1 entries- dissuadir verb (convince not to try or do)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 勸阻 /劝阻 verb (convince not to try or do)
Czech
1 entries- rozmluvit verb (convince not to try or do)
Danish
2 entries- fraråde verb (convince not to try or do)
- tale fra verb (convince not to try or do)
Dutch
3 entries- afbrengen van verb (convince not to try or do)
- afraden verb (convince not to try or do)
- uit het hoofd praten verb (convince not to try or do)
Esperanto
1 entries- deadmoni verb (convince not to try or do)
Finnish
3 entries- kääntää jonkun pää verb (convince not to try or do)
- saada luopumaan verb (convince not to try or do)
- saada toisiin ajatuksiin verb (convince not to try or do)
French
1 entries- dissuader verb (convince not to try or do)
Galician
1 entries- disuadir verb (convince not to try or do)
German
2 entries- abbringen verb (convince not to try or do)
- abraten verb (convince not to try or do)
Greek
1 entries- αποτρέπω verb (convince not to try or do)
Hungarian
1 entries- lebeszél verb (convince not to try or do)
Italian
1 entries- dissuadere verb (convince not to try or do)
Japanese
2 entries- 思いとどまらせる verb (convince not to try or do)
- 諫める verb (convince not to try or do)
Latin
2 entries- dehortor verb (convince not to try or do)
- dissuādeo verb (convince not to try or do)
Māori
2 entries- whakapakepake verb (convince not to try or do)
- whakapeau verb (convince not to try or do)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- avskrekke verb (convince not to try or do)
Old English
1 entries- belēan verb (convince not to try or do)
Polish
4 entries- odradzać verb (convince not to try or do)
- odradzić verb (convince not to try or do)
- odwieść verb (convince not to try or do)
- odwodzić verb (convince not to try or do)
Portuguese
1 entries- dissuadir verb (convince not to try or do)
Russian
2 entries- разубеди́ть verb (convince not to try or do)
- разубежда́ть verb (convince not to try or do)
Spanish
1 entries- disuadir verb (convince not to try or do)
Swedish
2 entries- avråda verb (convince not to try or do)
- avskräcka verb (convince not to try or do)
Tày
1 entries- can verb (convince not to try or do)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngăn cản verb (convince not to try or do)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
It may be problematic to dissuade your parents from accompanying you to the event.
Source: tatoeba (845818)
I'm not going to dissuade you from going up that mountain. Just watch out for the yetis.
Source: tatoeba (1740845)
I tried to dissuade my daughter-in-law, but she didn't listen to me.
Source: tatoeba (2877140)
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