dissuade

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• UK, US: /dɪˈsweɪd/
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• rhymes with -eɪd
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• homophone: diswayed
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S W EY1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French dissuader, from Latin dissuādeō (“to urge differently”, “to advise against”, “to dissuade”), from dis- (“away from”, “asunder”) + suādeō (“to recommend”, “to advise”, “to urge”).

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: разупэўніваць (razupewnivacʹ) — convince not to try or do
• Belarusian: разупэўніць (razupewnicʹ) — convince not to try or do
• Bulgarian: разубеждавам (razubeždavam) — convince not to try or do
• Bulgarian: разубедя (razubedja) — convince not to try or do
• Catalan: dissuadir — convince not to try or do
• Chinese Mandarin: 勸阻 /劝阻 (quànzǔ) — convince not to try or do
• Czech: rozmluvit — convince not to try or do
• Danish: tale fra — convince not to try or do
• Danish: fraråde — convince not to try or do
• Dutch: uit het hoofd praten — convince not to try or do
• Dutch: afbrengen van — convince not to try or do
• Dutch: afraden — convince not to try or do
• Esperanto: deadmoni — convince not to try or do
• Finnish: saada luopumaan — convince not to try or do
• Finnish: kääntää jonkun pää — convince not to try or do
• Finnish: saada toisiin ajatuksiin — convince not to try or do
• French: dissuader — convince not to try or do
• Galician: disuadir — convince not to try or do
• German: abbringen — convince not to try or do
• German: abraten — convince not to try or do
• Greek: αποτρέπω (apotrépo) — convince not to try or do
• Hungarian: lebeszél — convince not to try or do
• Italian: dissuadere — convince not to try or do
• Japanese: 思いとどまらせる (omoitodomaraseru) — convince not to try or do
• Japanese: 諫める (isameru) — convince not to try or do
• Latin: dissuādeo — convince not to try or do
• Latin: dehortor — convince not to try or do
• Macedonian: разубедува (razubeduva) — convince not to try or do
• Māori: whakapakepake — convince not to try or do
• Māori: whakapeau — convince not to try or do
• Norwegian Bokmål: avskrekke — convince not to try or do
• Old English: belēan — convince not to try or do
• Polish: odwieść — convince not to try or do
• Polish: odwodzić — convince not to try or do
• Polish: odradzić — convince not to try or do
• Polish: odradzać — convince not to try or do
• Portuguese: dissuadir — convince not to try or do
• Russian: разубежда́ть (razubeždátʹ) — convince not to try or do
• Russian: разубеди́ть (razubedítʹ) — convince not to try or do
• Spanish: disuadir — convince not to try or do
• Swedish: avskräcka — convince not to try or do
• Swedish: avråda — convince not to try or do
• Tày: can — convince not to try or do
• Vietnamese: ngăn cản — convince not to try or do