Crossword-Solution: PERSUADE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Persuade | v. t. | To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. |
| Persuade | v. t. | To try to influence. |
| Persuade | v. t. | To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe. |
| Persuade | v. t. | To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend. |
| Persuade | v. i. | To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion. |
| Persuade | n. | Persuasion. |
We have 47 clues for the answer “PERSUADE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| make (someone) do something by argument, charm, etc | 1 answer |
| cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action | 1 answer |
| Try and convince | 1 answer |
| IMPEL by argument | 1 answer |
| Twist someone's arm | 2 answers |
| Move to act | 3 answers |
| ARGUE into | 3 answers |
| talk into | 4 answers |
| BLACKMAIL (ant.) | 5 answers |
| Plead with | 5 answers |
| work on | 9 answers |
| BRAINWASH | 10 answers |
| BRING around | 19 answers |
| Sweet talk | 20 answers |
| Sweet-talk | 22 answers |
| CALL up spirit | 26 answers |
| work upon | 26 answers |
| Sell | 30 answers |
| Cajole | 33 answers |
| Assure | 34 answers |
| Wrestle (with) | 35 answers |
| seduce | 38 answers |
| Inveigle | 39 answers |
| Win over | 40 answers |
| Exhort | 41 answers |
| make evident | 41 answers |
| Coax | 42 answers |
| Induce | 42 answers |
| disarm | 44 answers |
| Invite | 44 answers |
| Convince | 46 answers |
| Bribe | 48 answers |
| Tempt | 48 answers |
| Satisfy | 49 answers |
| call forth | 49 answers |
| BRING ___ | 50 answers |
| Vamp | 50 answers |
| Entice | 52 answers |
| Spur | 52 answers |
| debauch | 56 answers |
| Overcome | 58 answers |
| Compel | 61 answers |
| Incline | 62 answers |
| Sway | 64 answers |
| Corrupt | 76 answers |
| Influence | 95 answers |
| Make | 102 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PERSUADE (5)
Sufficient of this Hook guessed to persuade him that Peter at last lay at his mercy, but no word of the dark design that now formed in the subterranean caverns of his mind crossed his lips; he merely signed that the captives were to be conveyed to the ship, and that he would be alone.
Yes, too indolent and easy To pursue her and persuade her; So he only gazed upon her, Only sat and sighed with passion For the maiden of the prairie.
Wilson laid his hand on the shoulder of a pale young man beside him—“I have sought, I say, to persuade this godly youth, that he should deal with you, here in the face of Heaven, and before these wise and upright rulers, and in hearing of all the people, as touching the vileness and blackness of your sin.
Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment.
The old woman who can never learn not to put the kerosene can on the stove, may yet be able to tell fortunes, to persuade a backward child to grow, to cure warts, or to tell people what to do with a young girl who has gone melancholy.
Quotes with PERSUADE (3)
Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.
From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1978–2022).