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:
Officers helped coax him down from the roof with the assistance of center staff.
He has coaxed law enforcement agencies into agreeing to the new protocol.
Researchers have coaxed cloned rhesus macaque embryos to grow to the blastocyst stage.
Maintaining a proper alkalinity plus frequent wetting and drying cycles can coax soil to retain more carbon dioxide.
They were in no way coaxed by the military.
Where the moderates coaxed, appeased and conciliated, the radicals preferred to cajole, to threaten and to force.
Here we concentrated on whether the infant could be coaxed into giving the spatula to the stranger, and simply rated whether this occurred.
This means that if central guidelines are to be implemented, lower levels of government must be coaxed or forced to comply.
