Tra từ persuade - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

per‧suade S3 W2 /pəˈsweɪd $ pər-/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
[Word Family: noun: persuasion ≠ dissuasion, persuasiveness; verb: persuade ≠ dissuade; adverb: persuasively; adjective: persuasive]
[date : 1500-1600; Language : Latin; Origin : persuadere, from suadere 'to advise']
1. to make someone decide to do something, especially by giving them reasons why they should do it, or asking them many times to do it
persuade somebody to do something
　 ▪ I finally managed to persuade her to go out for a drink with me.
persuade somebody into doing something
　 ▪ Don’t let yourself be persuaded into buying things you don’t want.
try/manage/fail to persuade somebody
　 ▪ I’m trying to persuade your dad to buy some shares.
attempt/effort to persuade somebody
　 ▪ Leo wouldn’t agree, despite our efforts to persuade him.
little/a lot of/no persuading
　 ▪ He took a lot of persuading to come out of retirement (=it was hard to persuade him).
　 ▪ He was fairly easily persuaded.

2. to make someone believe something or feel sure about something SYN convince:
　 ▪ I am not persuaded by these arguments.
persuade somebody (that)
　 ▪ She’ll only take me back if I can persuade her that I’ve changed.
persuade somebody of something
　 ▪ McFadden must persuade the jury of her innocence.
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THESAURUS
▪persuade to make someone decide to do something, especially by giving them reasons why they should do it, or asking them many times to do it :
　 ▪ I persuaded her to change her mind.
　 ▪ Do you think you can persuade him to lend us the money?
▪talk somebody into (doing) something to persuade someone to do something, especially something they do not really want to do :
　 ▪ Why did I let you talk me into this?
　 ▪ He finally talked her into going on a date with him.
▪get somebody to do something to make someone do something by persuading or asking them :
　 ▪ If we can’t get a taxi I’ll get Joe to pick us up.
　 ▪ I know how to get you to kiss me.
▪convince to persuade someone that they should do something, because it is the best or the right thing to do. Some British speakers think this use is incorrect, and prefer to use persuade :
　 ▪ It would be difficult to convince him to move.
▪encourage to try to persuade someone to do something, especially because you think it will be good for them :
　 ▪ Children should be encouraged to read all kinds of books.
▪influence to have an effect on what someone decides to do :
　 ▪ What influences you to buy clothes?
▪coax to persuade someone to do something by talking gently and kindly :
　 ▪ I tried to coax him to eat a little.
▪cajole /kəˈdʒəʊl $ -ˈdʒoʊl/ to persuade someone to do something by praising them or making promises to them :
　 ▪ He hoped to cajole her into selling her house.
▪put somebody up to something to persuade or encourage someone to do something wrong or stupid :
　 ▪ Who put you up to this?
▪dissuade formal to persuade someone not to do something :
　 ▪ How do you dissuade young people from experimenting with drugs?

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
let yourself be beaten/persuaded/fooled etc
▪ I stupidly let myself be persuaded to take part in a live debate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
easily
▪ This is another rasbora which is quite easily persuaded to breed in aquarium conditions.
finally
▪ A succession of scandals finally persuaded his father that William must seek his fortune overseas.
▪ The group members then went hunting for another buyer, finally persuading media giant Gannett Co. to buy their option.
▪ He finally persuaded Bolton to sell, but the asking price was an unprecedented £13,000, twice the previous record.
▪ Friends said two factors had finally persuaded him to join the contest.
▪ I went to see her, and I've finally persuaded her to see Martin again.
▪ Anya, possibly by waving her gun again, has finally persuaded Riva to change into drier clothes.
NOUN
attempt
▪ The union will engage in negotiations with the employers in an attempt to persuade them that the wage claim is justified.
▪ There was no attempt to persuade him to reconsider.
▪ Mr Mullin said that any attempt to persuade clubs to end discrimination by blocking their entitlement to rates relief was illegal.
▪ He had failed miserably in an attempt to persuade a Goan shopkeeper to buy a shipment of canned milk.
▪ April 23-24 Baker fails in his attempt to persuade Assad to moderate his position during talks in Damascus.
▪ There was no attempt to persuade and the result was that I blew up.
▪ The same would apply to attempts to persuade some one to refrain from doing so.
authority
▪ He also persuaded the college authorities that they ought to embark on a class project and construction was started in November 1936.
▪ There may still be time to persuade the authorities to relocate her rather than remove her from the wild.
campaign
▪ The Victorian Society mounted a campaign to persuade us to take it on.
▪ Separate animal rights organisations now work together in co-ordinated campaigns to persuade teenagers that animals should not be used in research.
▪ In Cambridge, there was a campaign to persuade students to register in the city, which was a marginal Conservative seat.
council
▪ How do you persuade the research council or the science supremo of an industrial research outfit to fund your brilliant new ideas?
▪ Joy Holloway lived next door to the kennels until she persuaded the council to rehouse her.
▪ Attempt to persuade the City Council to discontinue its dangerous and extravagant traffic schemes near the Donnington area.
▪ The success of the clubs persuaded Hounslow Borough Council to take them over as part of its educational support service.
▪ Next month he will try to persuade Great Aycliffe Town Council to spend £44,000 on a bus adapted for disabled people.
▪ Now supporters are trying to persuade the council not to go ahead with the plans.
court
▪ He persuaded the court that she must have raped him.
▪ It is difficult to persuade the Court of Appeal to alter a finding of direct fact by the trial judge.
difficulty
▪ The YCs often have difficulty in persuading their members to agree to perform administrative offices.
▪ I had such difficulty persuading him to take Brückner's story seriously.
▪ We had difficulty persuading our kids out of the creche and into their different groups, they liked the wee ones so much!
effort
▪ Fewer than 200 people took part in the trial, despite efforts to persuade more homeowners to get involved.
▪ In an effort to persuade cells to respond, even more insulin is released.
▪ Despite Dycarbas's efforts to persuade Eustathius and command Emilia, they can not moderate their behaviour.
▪ William Reilly's efforts to persuade the Administration to agree to sign was reportedly the prime focus of tension between them.
▪ I shall not abandon the effort to persuade you otherwise.
▪ When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless, the building began to be demolished around their heads.
friend
▪ He therefore persuaded a friend to procure him a ticket without disclosing his identity.
▪ Pipkins was so enthusiastic that she persuaded 15 friends and colleagues to go with her.
▪ They also thought it likely that two allies could bring that about - an outraged civilian persuading his powerful military friend.
▪ In vain I tried to persuade friends that even without glasses it was possible to experience the phenomenon.
▪ A woman who persuades a friend to donate oocytes will not get them herself.
government
▪ When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881, he persuaded Gladstone's Liberal government to take up the cause.
▪ Obviously, an organization benefits greatly when its interest group persuades the government to allow it to regulate itself.
▪ Alternatively, a hard-pressed sector may seek to persuade its government to invoke anti-dumping measures.
▪ Perhaps this would be a way of persuading the government to accept the proposal.
▪ By 1833 they had persuaded the government to provide a small grant towards this work.
▪ Helped persuade the Government to spend £200m cleaning Britain's beaches and £600m cleaning aerial discharges from coal-fired power stations.
▪ Eventually public concern for his safety persuaded the New Zealand Government of the day to introduce special protective legislation.
leader
▪ There were strong arguments to persuade Labour leaders to lower their sights in terms of national economic policy.
VERB
fail
▪ When he failed to persuade her to cancel it, he asked her for a date - and romance blossomed.
▪ He fails to persuade Hindus to repudiate the divisive and unjust social caste system.
▪ Having failed to persuade Mr Shankly to change his mind, Liverpool's board resisted the temptation to appoint another charismatic manager.
▪ When he failed, Bottger persuaded the king that he could find the formula for making porcelain -- and he did.
▪ To judge from the polls, he was failing to persuade voters that he was chancellor material.
▪ In offhand style we had named him Fred, but had failed to persuade him to eat anything.
▪ They didn't work for the Labour Party, which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice.
▪ So the best lobbyists make a point of never showing anger when they fail to persuade.
help
▪ The prime minister hopes that Mr Peres can help him persuade leftwingers and Arabs that he is still a peacemaker.
▪ Yet they have helped persuade a suspicious population to accept Mr Salinas's much-needed reforms.
hope
▪ The archdiocese still hopes to persuade the city to exempt Catholic Charities from the domestic partners ordinance, he said.
▪ The best he could hope for was to persuade Nev Hodgkinson to give him his money back.
▪ And so he put Sherry on contract, hoping to persuade her to go back to a two-year college.
▪ This won't be obvious yet, but I hope to persuade you of it.
▪ They hope to persuade the new operator to including a stop near the Haslemere Hospital in this route.
▪ The company hopes that it can persuade most of the surplus employees to go quietly, accepting voluntary redundancy.
manage
▪ We managed to persuade them to come and sit with us and she ended up next to me.
▪ Opposition experts have managed to persuade themselves that Bush is hoping to drop the plan.
▪ Only how had Leo managed to persuade him?
▪ So as a sideline I managed to persuade them to put out an album of the more acoustic stuff.
▪ Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground.
▪ Well, you managed to persuade the young lady to leave the Godstowe road for a spot you had previously chosen.
▪ She managed to persuade Ernest to take a proportion of this to augment his savings.
▪ We managed to persuade him not to perform the whole work during the wedding ceremony.
seek
▪ Alternatively, a hard-pressed sector may seek to persuade its government to invoke anti-dumping measures.
▪ They will seek to persuade journalists to support their client's case in appropriate newspaper articles.
▪ Dozens seized his point and sought to persuade the politicians and the public.
▪ The law should not encourage B to yield to the threat but should seek to persuade him to resist it.
▪ To influence, to seek to persuade, yes: to decide, no.
▪ Monsanto will never repeat the mistake of seeking to persuade consumers that they might wish to purchase its products.
try
▪ They had tried to persuade Harry to have a bed in their dormitory but he wouldn't agree.
▪ Although Bush and Clinton tried to persuade Congress to pay off the debt, the lawmakers have balked at doing so.
▪ The police spent two days trying to persuade the butcher to give them the name or names of his supplier.
▪ Amelia heard the newsmen trying to persuade the fliers to get dressed and have their picture taken.
▪ Using the techniques of forum theatre, the class try to persuade the old man to sell his house and land.
▪ But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact.
▪ It would be futile now to think of trying to persuade Jake to rethink his intended marriage to Janice.
▪ I have the onerous job on her father's behalf of trying to persuade her to return.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After this accident, it will be difficult for the government to persuade people that nuclear power stations are safe.
▪ He eventually managed to persuade me that the documents were genuine.
▪ He was convicted of the murder, but he is still trying to persuade the public that he's innocent.
▪ I tried to persuade his ex-girlfriend to talk to him, but she said no.
▪ Maguire said he was not persuaded by criticisms in the media.
▪ Neil didn't want to come at first, but we persuaded him.
▪ Teachers need ways to persuade more parents to attend parent-teacher evenings.
▪ We want to persuade them of the value of diplomacy and talks to resolve disputes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result, she persuaded Jeff to seek professional counselling.
▪ In response, the chief executive needs to establish a clear vision and persuade the top team to accept that vision.
▪ Incidentally, how did you persuade Michael Heseltine to write it for you?
▪ It is difficult to persuade the Court of Appeal to alter a finding of direct fact by the trial judge.
▪ It will persuade our big men to turn honest after elections and trust to the mercy of the jury.
▪ Probably these men were persuaded to relinquish their rights for a sum of money in lieu.
▪ Some patients report troubles persuading their managed-care health plans to provide cutting-edge care.
▪ They have to be persuaded to buy a stock, or indeed, sell it.