Persuade is valid Scrabble Word

Is persuade a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is persuade valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for PERSUADE in dictionary:

VERB:

to induce by reasoning or entreaty, also PERSWADE
induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument
cause (someone) to believe something, especially after a sustained effort; convince
(of a situation or event) provide a sound reason for (someone) to do something
make (someone) do something by argument, charm, etc
To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.
To try to influence.
To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend.
To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.

win approval or support for
cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody\'s arm

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to cause to do something by means of argument, reasoning, or entreaty

Words related to PERSUADE

persuadable16 persuaded13 persuader12 persuaders13 persuades12 persuading14 perswade14

Words that contain PERSUADE

persuaded13 persuader12 persuades12 persuaders13 mispersuade16 unpersuaded15 mispersuaded18 mispersuades17 overpersuade18 overpersuaded20 overpersuades19

How to use PERSUADE in a sentence

I frequently tried to persuade myself in these intervals that the contents of my Essay could not be true.
I desired the mate and surgeon to try to persuade him to speak.
You can persuade such a man without the slightest difficulty that you are a fool and a crook.
You must use no pressure to persuade Miss Osborn to marry Mr.
It is the hope of Illo and Terzky, through the sight of this document, to persuade Wallenstein to open rebellion.
The boy laboured patiently with his pupil, striving to persuade him that golf was more than a trial of strength.
Delcasse was finally able to quiet the French people, to recall Marchand from Fashoda and to persuade France to refuse the offer of German friendship.
As soon as France joined us in 1778, she began to persuade Spain to follow her example.
I persuade myself, you will find him ready at all times to be advised by you, as I have found him.
She may persuade herself that she takes them quite seriously, but he pretends to do so only out of politeness, and as he would pretend to take her clothes seriously.

Such, the advocates of non resistance would persuade us, are the legitimate results in this country of war on the one hand and of a long-protracted peace on the other.
Joliet spent his last years in a vain endeavor to persuade the government of France to undertake on a grand scale the development of the rich lands along the Mississippi.
Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
Miss Fyfe could persuade them to come more easily when the shells were falling.
The one effort to persuade the Commonwealth Republic to give power to the people was made by John Lilburne, and it was defeated.
But the Belgians do not like to be soldiers, and it is very difficult to persuade them to join the army.
She told them it was no use trying to persuade her to go back, for she would never serve any one but the Lord Jesus, so they might as well leave her in peace to go her own road.
Jack felt sorry for her, but confessed nothing, and did his best to persuade her to admit him, but found it a very hard task.
At this moment, he could not persuade himself that his conduct had been strictly honourable to that gentleman.
I took hours to reconcile my sister to the discovery I had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication.
However, as he walked and talked with Gray, the thought of murder made him shudder, and he made an earnest effort to persuade the Inhabitant to give up his criminal thoughts.
He tried, for a time, to persuade his wife to leave her home, and accompany him to the Mississippi, on the banks of which the Sauks and Foxes lived, but in vain.
Others sought to persuade me to promise to leave the country and not come back.
But the Goths feared the Franks, and the ambassadors of Belisarius were able to persuade them to reject their offers.
In December Thompson went as commissioner from Mississippi to North Carolina to persuade that State to secede, and did not resign his place in the cabinet because, as he said, Mr.
Jesus bade him good-bye, sorry he could not persuade him but liking him all the same.
Craik to persuade him that his good intentions ought not to be put off, and he made arrangements for the commencement of the new church at once.
I quite realize that I shall not persuade you to marry me for your own sake or for mine.
It was easy to persuade himself that this was right.
But no, I could no more persuade myself that it was a little thing than I could believe that any other course was the right one.
So he sent two nobles to the Swiss to talk to them, and persuade them to own him as their king.

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