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Dissuade Meaning Persuade Prefix Giving Dɪ'Sweɪd V.劝阻 Father

Front dissuade
Pron [dɪ'sweɪd]
Back 【dissuade】
v.劝阻
The father finally dissuaded his son from leaving school.
那父亲终于说动了他的儿子不辍学。
Vocab
dissuadeturn away from by persuasion

When you dissuade someone, you convince that person not to do something: “When Caroline saw Peter's broken leg, she tried to dissuade him going on the ski trip.”

Remember the meaning of dissuade by comparing it to its more common relative persuade. The suade part that both words share has origins in the Latin root suadēre, meaning “to urge.” In the case of persuade, the prefix per- means “thoroughly,” intensifying “to urge” and giving persuade its meaning of “to convince.” Think of dissuade as the opposite of persuade: the prefix dis- reverses the action of the root, giving the meaning of not urging, in other words, convincing someone NOT to do something.

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