0 present 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:
If she doesn't want to go, nothing you can say will persuade her.
[ + (that) ] It's no use trying to persuade him (that) you're innocent.
[ + to infinitive ] He is trying to persuade local and foreign businesses to invest in the project.
Using a bunch of bananas, the zoo-keeper persuaded the monkey back into its cage.
formal The first priority is to persuade the management of the urgency of this matter.
Her legal advisers persuaded her into/out of mentioning (= to mention/not to mention) the names of the people involved in the robbery.
Clever salesmanship can persuade you to buy things you don't really want.
We only need one more player for this game - can you persuade your sister to join in?
I have a suspicion that he only asked me out because my brother persuaded him to.
Johnson was influential in persuading the producers to put money into the film.
She used her womanly charms to persuade him to change his mind.
Increasing tax is the best way of persuading t he population at large t o r educe smoking.
The issue now was not just citizen competence, but persuading citizens of the viability of democracy in a time of crisis.
He seemed to think he was persuading me about monetary union.
