0 past simple and past participle of persuade --
1 to make someone do or believe something by giving them a good reason to do it or by talking to that person and making them believe it: --
Her legal advisers persuaded her into/out of mentioning (= to mention/not to mention) the names of the people involved in the robbery.
formal The first priority is to persuade the management of the urgency of this matter.
Using a bunch of bananas, the zoo-keeper persuaded the monkey back into its cage.
[ + to infinitive ] He is trying to persuade local and foreign businesses to invest in the project.
[ + (that) ] It's no use trying to persuade him (that) you're innocent.
If she doesn't want to go, nothing you can say will persuade her.
Conversely, if enough people are persuaded to avoid that new way of saying it, the new way will fade out.
Rather, it persuaded them to regard even their highest principles as species of hypothesis.
The threat of violence persuaded the three to leave.
Actually it did not take me too long to be persuaded.
What persuaded him to change his mind and back up a project of no financial benefit to him?
Not everyone is persuaded by the 'expansionary fiscal consolidation' thesis and some studies suggest that restrictive public expenditure regimes do exacerbate social tensions.
However, we are also powerfully persuaded by ideas which are hard to reconcile with it.
Gradually, they persuaded themselves that this condemnation was the safeguard of ' ' true ' ' religious liberty.
