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[ verb ] win approval or support for
Examples "Carry all before one" "His speech did not sway the voters" Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go_to Red_River where they were to serve as a military_force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest_Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders ' empire . (U.S. Reports. Volume 364. Cases Adjudged in the...)I am not easily persuaded that a rule accepted by so many people for so many centuries can be so lightly dismissed . |
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[ verb ] cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm
Examples "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!" Used in print (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)But Winston had persuaded him . (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)As a result , he was persuaded out to dinner . But he was always persuaded out . |
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