• v.
    ⦿cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm

Semantic relations

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
wn:example
⦿You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:persuade
wn:interlingual indexili:i25525
wn:eq synonymdn:overtale§1

Other

dc:Subjectverb.communication
skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelpersuade