Definition of persuade

"persuade" in the verb sense

1. carry, persuade, sway

win approval or support for

"Carry all before one"

"His speech did not sway the voters"

2. persuade

cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action twist somebody's arm

"You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!"

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Quotations for persuade

Curst be the gold and silver which persuade
Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade!
The lily peace outshines the silver store,
And life is dearer than the golden ore.
Yet money tempts us over the desert brown,
To every distant mart and wealthy town. [ Collins ]

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. [ Proverb ]

How difficult a thing it is, to persuade most men to be happy! [ Proverb ]

Beauty itself doth itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men are more eloquent than women made; but women are more powerful to persuade. [ Thomas Randolph ]

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. [ Hazlitt ]

A fair woman shall not only command without authority, but persuade without speaking. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he had none. [ Babinet ]

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavouring to think so ourselves. [ Confucius ]

It is very strange and very melancholy that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us to call hunting one of them. [ Dr. Johnson ]

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none; and then they endeavor to persuade themselves so. [ Tillotson ]

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life. [ Swift ]

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade. [ Ben Jonson ]

There is one preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things. [ Carlyle ]

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]

Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples. [ Pope ]

There is scarce any man who cannot persuade himself of his own merit. Has he commonsense, he prefers it to genius; has he some diminutive virtues, he prefers them to great talents. [ Sewall ]

The passions are the only orators that always persuade; they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth; and eloquence a gift of the mind, which makes us master of the heart and spirit of others; which enables us to inspire them with, or persuade them of whatever we please. [ Bruyere ]

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]

persuade in Scrabble®

The word persuade is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters persuade:

PERSUADE
(108)
PERSUADE
(108)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (4 words)

perused, respade, speared, supered

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word persuade

PERSUADE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In persuade

PERSUADE
(108)
PERSUADE
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PERUSED
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PERSUADE
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(42)
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(36)
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persuade in Words With Friends™

The word persuade is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters persuade:

RESPADE
(104 = 69 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (4 words)

perused, respade, speared, supered

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word persuade

PERSUADE
(102)
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(90)
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(69)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In persuade

RESPADE
(104 = 69 + 35)
PERSUADE
(102)
PERUSED
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SUPERED
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SPEARED
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Words containing the sequence persuade

Words that end with persuade (4 words)

Word Growth involving persuade

Shorter words in persuade

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Longer words containing persuade

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persuaded mispersuaded

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persuaded persuadedly

persuaded persuadedness

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persuaded unpersuaded

persuader persuaders

persuades mispersuades

persuades overpersuades

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