Meaning of coax In English

• 0 to persuade someone gently to do something or go somewhere, by being kind and patient, or by appearing to be:

  • Perhaps you could coax your father into taking you to the station.

  • A mother was coaxing her reluctant child into the water.

  • a coaxing voice

  • Stem cells are coaxed to grow into a variety of cells to be injected into patients.

  • She coaxed the plane in for the landing.

• 1 to try to persuade someone to do something by gently asking or patiently encouraging the person:

  • He’ll talk if you coax him.