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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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With some difficulty, we managed to dissuade our left-leaning daughter from buying pint-sized T-shirts for our preschool grandchildren.
If I visit him at this time, I dissuade him from farther attempts to open the skin, but advise a gentle eccoprotic.
When she had made up her mind on something it was quite hard to dissuade her from the course she had chosen.
While their fiercely offbeat sounds may initially dissuade, a bit of perseverance can reap immense rewards.
The biggest mystery is how these disturbing metrics failed to dissuade big investors and lenders from taking a flier on the industry.
Staffordshire Police is urging parents to dissuade their children from taking part in the Halloween activity known as trick or treat.

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