0 to persuade someone not to do something: --
I tried to dissuade her from leaving.
1 to persuade someone not to do something: --
The nature of the legal process may therefore dissuade potential claimants and limit the potential benefits of litigation.
Or attempt to dissuade the patient from taking the expensive drug while suggesting more cost-effective alternatives?
At the same time, the enlightened socialist child would contribute to dissuade the older generation from outmoded habits.
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Nevertheless, the complexity of a process should not dissuade us from considering it.
Yet, using co-payments to dissuade patients to stop using medications with marginal clinical value seems problematic given that patients are not fully informed.
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.
It can also be a warning (a directive) to dissuade one from an act.