dissuade
verb
[ dɪˈsweɪd ]
• persuade (someone) not to take a particular course of action.
• "his friends tried to dissuade him from flying"
Similar:
discourage,
deter,
prevent,
disincline,
turn aside,
divert,
sidetrack,
talk out of,
persuade against,
persuade not to,
argue out of,
put off,
stop,
scare off,
warn off,
advise against,
urge against,
advise/urge not to,
caution against,
expostulate against,
dehort,
Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘advise against’): from Latin dissuadere, from dis- (expressing reversal) + suadere ‘advise, persuade’.
