Persuades is valid Scrabble Word

Is persuades a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for PERSUADES in dictionary:

VERB:

PERSUADE, 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

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

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

Words related to PERSUADES

persuade11 persuaded13 persuading14

Words that contain PERSUADES

mispersuades17 overpersuades19

How to use PERSUADES in a sentence

He persuades his slave, by the hope of freedom, and by great rewards, to convey a letter to Caesar.
And it is not at all improbable, that she will persist, till she almost persuades herself that she is serious in her menace to dissolve the Union.
It persuades us that we have need of all, that others have need of nothing.
He tells Belvidera of the plot, and Belvidera, in order to save her father, persuades Jaffier to reveal the plot to Priuli, if he will promise a general free pardon.
Glenalvon, who hates the new favorite, persuades Lord Randolph that his wife is too intimate with the young upstart, and the two surprise them in familiar intercourse in a wood.
For the inflexible determination of this man was not embittered by harshness, and he could wield as well as any one the language that soothes and persuades.
They do not buy furniture or china because they like them, but because the shopman persuades them that what they buy is the fashion.
GREY, however, writes of it so admirably that he almost persuades me to be a camper-out, provided always that I may live in a cavern and not in a caravan.
One is to set out without a very definite idea of what you wish to buy, and to buy what you do not want, if the shopman persuades you to do so, or it pleases your fancy.
She persuades her lover Sextus to conspire against his friend, and he succeeds in setting the Capitol on fire.

Tamino is refused admittance by the doorkeeper, but Papageno in some unexplained way contrives to get in, and persuades Pamina to escape with him.
At the last moment, however, his mother appears, and persuades him to relinquish all hopes of earthly love and to return with her to their subterranean home.
She loves Eyolf, another Viking, and persuades him to murder her husband.
Seized by a sudden return of her old love, she hastens away to the seminary, and after a passionate interview persuades Des Grieux to come back once more to her arms.
Lescaut persuades the sergeant in charge to allow her an interview with Des Grieux.
Micaela also finds her way up to the camp, and persuades Jose to go home with her and tend the last moments of his dying mother.
She persuades him finally not to tell, but he fears he will, so, when the chance comes, he finds the only way out, the way of peace for his mother and peace for himself.
Harry Jardine is continually looking after you, whatever his mother persuades herself.
Passion makes an immense advance as soon as a woman persuades herself that she has failed somewhat in generosity or hurt a noble nature.
It seemed to persuade me as papa persuades his congregation.
Certainly it is not your fault that this compost makes yet another jumble of his two desires, and persuades himself that the two are somehow allied.
Prothoe persuades him to leave the Queen, when she awakes, in the delusion that she has conquered and that he is the captive.
It is not what we say that persuades, but the manner of saying it.
Aponitolau persuades her to allow him to visit the earth.
By the loud trumpet, which our courage aids, We learn that sound, as well as sense, persuades.
A prince with such advantages as these, Where he persuades not, may command a peace.
What a lesson in literature! How feelingly it persuades us that all except a very little of the ornament of letters and of life makes the dulness of the world.
If the Lord persuades you of the glory and power of Emmanuel, I feel persuaded that you cannot but choose Him.
Spring, with his usual attention to strangers, persuades Mr.

Similar words containing PERSUADE without suffix s

persuade11 persuaded13 persuader12 persuaders13 mispersuade16 unpersuaded15 mispersuaded18 mispersuades17 overpersuade18 overpersuaded20 overpersuades19

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