Associations to the word «Dissuade»

Wiktionary

DISSUADE, verb. (transitive) To convince not to try or do.

Dictionary definition

DISSUADE, verb. Turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne