Usually means: Influence someone to do something.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. persuade: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. persuade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. persuade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. persuade: Collins English Dictionary
  5. persuade: Vocabulary.com
  6. Persuade, persuade: Wordnik
  7. persuade: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. persuade: Wiktionary
  9. persuade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. persuade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. persuade: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. persuade: Dictionary.com
  13. persuade: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Persuade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Persuade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. persuade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. persuade: Rhymezone
  18. persuade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. persuade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. persuade: Free Dictionary
  21. persuade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. persuade: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persuade: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persuade: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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  1. persuade: Idioms

(Note: See persuaded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something).
verb:  (transitive, now rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).

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