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I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.
Jennifer Tilly

Meaning of "dissuade" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DISSUADE

From Latin dissuādēre, from dis-1 + suādēre to persuade.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DISSUADE

dissuade  [dɪˈsweɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISSUADE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dissuade is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb dissuade in English.

WHAT DOES DISSUADE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dissuade in the English dictionary

The definition of dissuade in the dictionary is to deter by persuasion from a course of action, policy, etc. Other definition of dissuade is to advise against.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DISSUADE

PRESENT

Present
I dissuade
you dissuade
he/she/it dissuades
we dissuade
you dissuade
they dissuade
Present continuous
I am dissuading
you are dissuading
he/she/it is dissuading
we are dissuading
you are dissuading
they are dissuading
Present perfect
I have dissuaded
you have dissuaded
he/she/it has dissuaded
we have dissuaded
you have dissuaded
they have dissuaded
Present perfect continuous
I have been dissuading
you have been dissuading
he/she/it has been dissuading
we have been dissuading
you have been dissuading
they have been dissuading
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I dissuaded
you dissuaded
he/she/it dissuaded
we dissuaded
you dissuaded
they dissuaded
Past continuous
I was dissuading
you were dissuading
he/she/it was dissuading
we were dissuading
you were dissuading
they were dissuading
Past perfect
I had dissuaded
you had dissuaded
he/she/it had dissuaded
we had dissuaded
you had dissuaded
they had dissuaded
Past perfect continuous
I had been dissuading
you had been dissuading
he/she/it had been dissuading
we had been dissuading
you had been dissuading
they had been dissuading
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will dissuade
you will dissuade
he/she/it will dissuade
we will dissuade
you will dissuade
they will dissuade
Future continuous
I will be dissuading
you will be dissuading
he/she/it will be dissuading
we will be dissuading
you will be dissuading
they will be dissuading
Future perfect
I will have dissuaded
you will have dissuaded
he/she/it will have dissuaded
we will have dissuaded
you will have dissuaded
they will have dissuaded
Future perfect continuous
I will have been dissuading
you will have been dissuading
he/she/it will have been dissuading
we will have been dissuading
you will have been dissuading
they will have been dissuading
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would dissuade
you would dissuade
he/she/it would dissuade
we would dissuade
you would dissuade
they would dissuade
Conditional continuous
I would be dissuading
you would be dissuading
he/she/it would be dissuading
we would be dissuading
you would be dissuading
they would be dissuading
Conditional perfect
I would have dissuade
you would have dissuade
he/she/it would have dissuade
we would have dissuade
you would have dissuade
they would have dissuade
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been dissuading
you would have been dissuading
he/she/it would have been dissuading
we would have been dissuading
you would have been dissuading
they would have been dissuading
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you dissuade
we let´s dissuade
you dissuade
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to dissuade
Past participle
dissuaded
Present Participle
dissuading
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISSUADE


afraid
əˈfreɪd
aid
eɪd
aide
eɪd
arcade
ɑːˈkeɪd
grade
ɡreɪd
handmade
ˌhændˈmeɪd
made
meɪd
mispersuade
ˌmɪspəˈsweɪd
overpersuade
ˌəʊvəpəˈsweɪd
paid
peɪd
parade
pəˈreɪd
persuade
pəˈsweɪd
suede
sweɪd
trade
treɪd
unpathwayed
ʌnˈpɑːθˌweɪd
unswayed
ʌnˈsweɪd
unwayed
ʌnˈweɪd
unweighed
ʌnˈweɪd
upgrade
ʌpˈɡreɪd
wade
weɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISSUADE

dissolvableness
dissolve
dissolvent
dissolver
dissolvings
dissonance
dissonancy
dissonant
dissonantly
dissuadable
dissuader
dissuasion
dissuasive
dissuasively
dissuasory
dissunder
dissyllabic
dissyllable
dissymmetric
dissymmetrical

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISSUADE

brigade
call a spade a spade
cascade
custom-made
decade
digitigrade
fade
grenade
hade
hit parade
home-made
jade
lade
lemonade
make the grade
on the downgrade
on the upgrade
promenade
shade
spade

Synonyms and antonyms of dissuade in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dissuade» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISSUADE

Find out the translation of dissuade to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dissuade from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dissuade» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

劝阻
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

disuadir
570 millions of speakers

English

dissuade
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विरत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ثني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отговорить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dissuadir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কাউকে ফিরিয়ে আনার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dissuader
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menghalang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abbringen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

思いとどまらせる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단념시키다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dissuade
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khuyên can
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிரிக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विपरित करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

vazgeçirmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dissuadere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odwieść
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відрадити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

descurajeze
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεταπείσει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

weerhou
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avråda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fraråde
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dissuade

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISSUADE»

The term «dissuade» is regularly used and occupies the 59.662 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISSUADE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dissuade

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5 QUOTES WITH «DISSUADE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dissuade.
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Georgina Chapman
I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.
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Carmen Ejogo
I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.
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James Hansen
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
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Nassau William Senior
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
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Jennifer Tilly
I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISSUADE»

Discover the use of dissuade in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dissuade and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The traveler's vade mecum; or, Instantaneous letter writer
DISSUADE. 3207. I would dissuade you from your purpose. 3208. I would dissuade .... from his purpose. 3209. You had better dissuade .... if possible. 3210 . I will try to dissuade him. 3211. It will be of no use to attempt to dissuade him. 3212.
Abraham Chittenden Baldwin, 1853
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Verb Classification, Case Marking, and Grammatical Relations ...
Controller: NMR core argument of AV verb; Pivot: U of UV verb Mi-lalang kakiij ci mama-arij ma-palu/palu-en AV-dissuade 1S.NOM PPN father-DAT UV-beat/beat- UV n-u tao j/*i. GEN-CN others T dissuaded Father from being beaten by others.
Jing-lan Joy Wu, 2006
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Seeking to Dissuade: Does the International Legal Framework ...
The thesis primarily deals with the gaps in existing international legal system on issue of Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility (MACR) which leaves child soldiers vulnerable to prosecution.
Sibghatullah Ahmed, 2012
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The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan, Volume 2: Action, ...
... would be disastrous. You believe that, if you expend much time and effort, you can dissuade him from making the investment; that nobody else will even try to dissuade him; and that the disaster you anticipate for him would be out of ...
Alan Donagan, J. E. Malpas, 1994
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The real presence of Christ in the holy sacrament; and The ...
Tn}: Third Way I must needs say is a fine one. He offers to prove my Dissuasive to be no dissuasive, no, nor can it be' a dissuasive. And why? because “to dissuade , is to unfix the understanding from what it held before; which includes to make ...
Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber, 1828
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The real presence of Christ in the holy sacrament (cont.) A ...
And why? because "to dissuade, is to unfix the understanding from what it held before ; which includes to make it hold or assent, that what it held before certain, is false or at least uncertain." And here before I proceed further, it is fit we ...
Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber, George Rust, 1839
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The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life ...
The Third Way I must needs say is a fine one. He offers to prove my Dissuasive to be no dissuasive, no, nor can it be a dissuasive. And why? because " to dissuade , is to unfix the understanding from what it held before ; which includes to make ...
Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber, 1822
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Master the SAT 2014
... sing in addition to dancing The correct answer is(B). 1. Although her parents, naturally, were worried, they did not try and dissuade her. (A) did not try and dissuade (B) didn't try and dissuade (C) tried not dissuading (D) did not try to dissuade ...
Peterson's, 2013
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The whole works of ... Jeremy Taylor, with a life of the ...
And why ? because " to dissuade, is to unfix the understanding from what it held before ; which includes to make it hold or assent, that what it held before certain, is false or at least uncertain." And here before I proceed further, it is fit we ...
Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.), Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.), 1828
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Word Meaning and Montague Grammar: The Semantics of Verbs ...
However, I think it can be argued that the analysis of dissuade should not be (i) but rather (ii): (ii) CAUSE(x,BECOME(NOT(mtoid(x, P(x))))) Horn (1978b) cites the frequently-made observation that (iii) does not seem to "presuppose" that Bill ...
D. R. Dowty, 1979

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISSUADE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dissuade is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hacked surveillance company says its tools could fall into the hands …
Shortly after its systems were breached, CEO Christian Pozzi attempted to dissuade people from downloading a 400GB torrent containing ... «The Next Web, Jul 15»
2
US, UAE Launch Center to Counter Islamic State Message
... goal is to both use information to dissuade people from joining the Islamic State and to "take offline" those who are using social media to try to ... «Voice of America, Jul 15»
3
Hawaii ban on noncompetes leaves out a huge chunk of workers
Non-competes in low-wage industries that dissuade workers from seeking better, higher-paying jobs within the same industry are “unfair,” the ... «Fortune, Jul 15»
4
Fed Increase Little More Than Coin Flip for Derivative Traders
``It seems to us that it would take a significant spillover to the U.S. from Greece and/or China in terms of selloff in risky assets to dissuade the ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
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Concerts Can't Bring Back the Dead
... sounding like the antidote I'd been seeking all evening; it resonated with a willful inscrutability that seemed designed to dissuade idolatry. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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Here's a timeline of everything China has done to prevent a stock …
... IPOs, official instructions to institutional investors not to sell shares, and the implementation of a stamp tax on share sales to dissuade selloffs. «Business Insider, Jul 15»
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analysis: Stealing Labour's clothes
And would the prospect of future benefit cuts dissuade some people from coming off welfare to take temporary work now if that would expose ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
8
Life After Death? There Is Hope
They believe our existence is luck and it's random, and I am not here to dissuade them. I admit I've gone through bouts where I'd have stood ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
California e-cigarette bill abandoned after hostile amendment
... testify against the bill, arguing it would impose onerous new regulations that would blunt sales and dissuade people from quitting cigarettes. «Sacramento Bee, Jul 15»
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Investigator | Stalking victim says cop tormented her
A call to 911 that night did nothing to dissuade Paull, she said. When officers arrived, he was merely sent away. There was no report made by a ... «WKYC-TV, Jul 15»

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