| Dissuade 1. (v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to persuade from a course of action. 2. (v. t.) To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose. Thesaurus Entries admonish, advise, caution, counsel, cry out against, daunt, derail, deter, discourage, divert, exhort, expostulate, frighten off, intimidate, kid out of, prick, remonstrate, talk out of, throw off, unpersuade, urge, warn |