Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to persuade
Participle: persuaded
Gerund: persuading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | persuade |
| you | persuade |
| he;she;it | persuades |
| we | persuade |
| you | persuade |
| they | persuade |
Perfect
| I | have persuaded |
| you | have persuaded |
| he;she;it | has persuaded |
| we | have persuaded |
| you | have persuaded |
| they | have persuaded |
Past
| I | persuaded |
| you | persuaded |
| he;she;it | persuaded |
| we | persuaded |
| you | persuaded |
| they | persuaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had persuaded |
| you | had persuaded |
| he;she;it | had persuaded |
| we | had persuaded |
| you | had persuaded |
| they | had persuaded |
Future
| I | will persuade |
| you | will persuade |
| he;she;it | will persuade |
| we | will persuade |
| you | will persuade |
| they | will persuade |
Future Perfect
| I | will have persuaded |
| you | will have persuaded |
| he;she;it | will have persuaded |
| we | will have persuaded |
| you | will have persuaded |
| they | will have persuaded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | persuade |
| you | persuade |
| he;she;it | persuade |
| we | persuade |
| you | persuade |
| they | persuade |
Perfect
| I | have persuaded |
| you | have persuaded |
| he;she;it | have persuaded |
| we | have persuaded |
| you | have persuaded |
| they | have persuaded |
Imperfect
| I | persuaded |
| you | persuaded |
| he;she;it | persuaded |
| we | persuaded |
| you | persuaded |
| they | persuaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had persuaded |
| you | had persuaded |
| he;she;it | had persuaded |
| we | had persuaded |
| you | had persuaded |
| they | had persuaded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would persuade |
| you | would persuade |
| he;she;it | would persuade |
| we | would persuade |
| you | would persuade |
| they | would persuade |
Perfect
| I | would have persuaded |
| you | would have persuaded |
| he;she;it | would have persuaded |
| we | would have persuaded |
| you | would have persuaded |
| they | would have persuaded |
Imperative
| you | persuade |
| we | Let's persuade |
| you | persuade |
Verbs conjugated like 'persuade'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'persuade'
perswade,
persue,
pervade,
repersuade,
unpersuade,
beshade,
dissuade,
mispersuade,
overshade,
parade,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- influence
- actuate, inveigle, entice, cajole, impel, exhort, induce, coax
- convince
- satisfy
Antonyms
- influence
- ineffectiveness, impotence, futility, incapacity
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Latin persuādeō (“to persuade”). Cognate to for, sweet.
Verbs referencing "persuade"
Ido persuadar, Welsh
perswadio.
Sample Sentences
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[...] opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in some odd corner out of sight (portmanteaus which could now no more be got in at the door, not to say stowed away, than a giraffe could be persuaded or forced into a flower-pot ): that this utterly impracticable, thoroughly hopeless, and profoundly preposterous box, had the remotest reference to, or connection with, those chaste and pretty, not [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] most part, scanty brown backs, like the lids of old horsehair trunks: spotted with unwholesome black blotches. They have long, gaunt legs, too, and such peaked snouts, that if one of them could be persuaded to sit for his profile, nobody would recognise it for a pig 's likeness. They are never attended upon, or fed, or driven, or caught, but are thrown upon their own resources in early life, and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant for reformation; but I am persuaded that those who devised this system of Prison Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it into execution, do not know what it is that they are doing. I believe that very few men are [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] go; and her heart having a warm side to it, Augustine had, as he usually did with most people, monopolized a large share of it for himself, and therefore it was that he succeeded very easily in persuading her that the “ path of duty ” lay in the direction of New Orleans, and that she must go with him to take care of Eva, and keep everything from going to wreck and ruin during the frequent illnesses [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The kitchen was a large brick-floored apartment, with a great old-fashioned fireplace stretching along one side of it,—an arrangement which St. Clare had vainly tried to persuade Dinah to exchange for the convenience of a modern cook-stove. Not she. No Puseyite,[1 ] or conservative of any school, was ever more inflexibly attached to time-honored inconveniences than Dinah.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ I wish, ” said Tom, looking at her earnestly,—“I wish I could persuade you to leave off drinking. Don't you know it will be the ruin of ye, body and soul ? ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] in constitution and habit, a duplicate of my father. I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,—just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit. You know very well how impossible it is to persuade some of the folks in your village that Squire Sinclair does not feel above them. The fact is, though he has fallen on democratic times, and embraced a democratic theory, he is to the heart an [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Papa, you are such a good man, and so noble, and kind, and you always have a way of saying things that is so pleasant, couldn't you go all round and try to persuade people to do right about this ? When I am dead, papa, then you will think of me, and do it for my sake. I would do it, if I could. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and an expression of bitter self-reproach passed over his face. Adolph absolutely refused to go. Terror had deprived him of all presence of mind; he threw himself along the floor, and nothing could persuade him to rise. The rest yielded to Miss Ophelia's urgent representations, that their master's safety depended on their stillness and obedience.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] At length, one day, came a gentleman named Stuart. He seemed to have some feeling for me; he saw that something dreadful was on my heart, and he came to see me alone, a great many times, and finally persuaded me to tell him. He bought me, at last, and promised to do all he could to find and buy back my children. He went to the hotel where my Henry was; they told him he had been sold to a planter up on [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)