0 past simple and past participle of dissuade
1 to persuade someone not to do something:
I tried to dissuade her from leaving.
Women were not to enter the public sphere, and married women in particular were to be dissuaded from working outside the home.
He admitted to an interest in physics, though his teacher dissuaded him from pursuing avenues in this direction.
The existence of the constitutional secular norm seems to have dissuaded political parties and senior state officials from openly siding with one or other religion.
The shaikh, however, dissuaded him from doing so.
Individuals with a history of a jaundice illness during the previous year were dissuaded from having the vaccine but were not refused.
This depresses rates of founding as nascent group efforts fail, and potential entrepreneurs are dissuaded from founding new organizations.
His very presence dissuaded many would-be rebels from committing themselves to outright rebellion.
Lijphart argues that the extremes will be dissuaded from using their veto in this way.
