0 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.
1 past simple and past participle of persuade --
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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.
It was not only husbands who persuaded women to return.
Perhaps its publishers could be persuaded to bring it out in paperback to make these individual essays more readily available to researchers and students alike.
This bit of deception, even if it was only self-deception, disturbed many of us, and we persuaded him to stop.
Managing Your Emotions
What makes me angry?
Vad gör mig arg?
Mostly,l hate when someone tries to make someone else feel bad.
För det mesta hatar jag när någon försöker få någon annan att må dåligt.
I have to admit that once, when l was actually called names.
Jag måste erkänna att en gång, när jag faktiskt kallades öknamn.
l regretted doing this afterwards, but not full heartedly because l think l was provoked in that situation.
Jag ångrade detta efteråt, men inte helhjärtat eftersom jag tror att jag blev provocerad i denna situation.
The most postive way of dealing with anger is talking about the problem.
Det mest positiva sättet att hantera ilska är att prata om problemet.
l talk to someone who listens, or l'll write my thoughts down on paper.
Jag pratar med någon som lyssnar, annars skriver jag ner mina tankar på papper.
Learning how to deal with anger as you're growing up is so important.
Att lära sig att hantera ilska när du växer upp är så viktigt.
When you're younger, you might yell,or cry when you're angry, but as you get older, you're expected to handle your emotions much better.
När du är yngre kan du skrika eller gråta när du är arg, men när du blir äldre blir du förväntas hantera dina känslor mycket bättre.
Learning to control your emotion now will prevent you from doing something that you'll regret later on in life!
Att lära sig att kontrollera dina känslor nu kommer att hindra dig från att göra något som du kommer att ångrar sig senare i livet!