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What does dissuade mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To convince not to try or do.
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He was familiar with her obstinate behaviour, and knew that any attempt to dissuade her from doing what she wanted would only invoke her anger.
Not that such disincentives dissuade the smart set from guzzling foreign brands.
If I visit him at this time, I dissuade him from farther attempts to open the skin, but advise a gentle eccoprotic.
I had, of course, tried to dissuade him, if only for his own safety, but he would have none of it.
While their fiercely offbeat sounds may initially dissuade, a bit of perseverance can reap immense rewards.
Those who knew us knew, as I refused to yield my gunman position in the drive-by, that they couldn't dissuade me.

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