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To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).

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  1. v. t. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).
  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.
  3. v. turn away from by persuasion
  4. v:100 v. turn away from by persuasion