verb
Meaning 1
Synonym of dissuade.
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Synonyms: dissuade
Antonyms: none provided
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verb
Synonym of dissuade.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: dissuade
Antonyms: none provided
History
Synchronically validly portrayable as either (1) by surface analysis, di- + sway, in direct morphologic parallel with dissuade, or (2) an eggcorn of dissuade; diachronically perhaps now unknowable (as to which of those was the word's historical origin). It is true that (1) dissuade is the much more common word, and (2) disway is not entered in most major dictionaries; and these facts may lend support to the idea that the eggcorn idea is likelier diachronically, and certainly to the idea that most lexicographers consider it likelier.