Dissuading synonyms and antonyms

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deterring
To keep or discourage (a person, group, or nation) from doing something by instilling fear, anxiety, doubt, etc.
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preventing
To keep from happening; avert:
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thwarting
To prevent the occurrence, realization, or attainment of:
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stopping
To prevent the flow or passage of:
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restraining
To hold back or keep in check; control:
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diverting
To turn (a person or thing) aside from a course, direction, etc. into another; deflect
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discouraging
To prevent or try to prevent by disapproving or raising objections or obstacles
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cautioning
To warn or admonish:
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persuading (antonym)
To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. Compare sway.
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inciting (antonym)
The definition of incite is to rile people up or to inspire and encourage specific behavior.
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hindering (related)
To keep back; restrain; get in the way of; prevent; stop
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Dissuading Sentence Examples

  • There was no dissuading someone like Darian.

  • Oldham wrote other satires, notably one "addressed to a friend about to leave the university," which contains a well-known description of the state of slavery of the private chaplain, and another "dissuading from poetry," describing the ingratitude shown to Edmund Spenser, whose ghost is the speaker, to Samuel Butler and to Abraham Cowley.

  • He therefore addressed an eloquent and imploring letter to the earl, pointing out the dangers of his position and urging upon him what he judged to be the only safe course of action, to seek and secure the favour of the queen alone; above all things dissuading him from the appearance of military popularity.

  • The negotiations with the papal see continued meanwhile, but led to no result, as the members of the Roman party used their influence at the papal court for the purpose of dissuading it from granting any concessions to their countrymen.

  • In his best known work, Bruges la Morte (1892), he explains that his aim is to evoke the town as a living being, associated with the moods of the spirit, counselling, dissuading from and prompting action.

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