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What does dissuade mean?

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  1. (transitive) To convince not to try or do.
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I had, of course, tried to dissuade him, if only for his own safety, but he would have none of it.
Those who knew us knew, as I refused to yield my gunman position in the drive-by, that they couldn't dissuade me.
When she had made up her mind on something it was quite hard to dissuade her from the course she had chosen.
I mean it is designed to dissuade young people from starting with illicit drugs.
If I visit him at this time, I dissuade him from farther attempts to open the skin, but advise a gentle eccoprotic.
While their fiercely offbeat sounds may initially dissuade, a bit of perseverance can reap immense rewards.

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