0 past simple and past participle of coax
1 to persuade someone gently to do something or go somewhere, by being kind and patient, or by appearing to be:
Between them, they coaxed out of him, elegantly as ever, a willingness to tell us about secondary legislation.
Where, one might ask, is the old-fashioned nursing that would have coaxed the frail into taking the nourishment essential for their recovery and well-being?
People will have to be marketed to, targeted, coaxed and enticed by the financial institutions, and that will cost money.
I have not yet been coaxed into that activity.
He was eventually coaxed into a car which took him back to the observation ward.
The new definitions will need to be coaxed into our taxation case law.
We can be coaxed; we cannot be driven.
They were coaxed into the profession and came in with the highest ideals.
