英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvəpəˈsweɪd/

動詞

overpersuade (三人称単数 現在形 overpersuades, 現在分詞 overpersuading, 過去形および過去分詞形 overpersuaded)

1. To win someone over through persuasion; to convince (someone) to do something against their own judgement or wishes. [from 17th c.]
   • 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 36:

     Opportunitie casting him into the company of foure French Gallants well attended [...]; over-perswaded him to goe with them into France, to the Dutchesse of Mercury, from whom they should not only have meanes, but also Letter of favour to her noble Duke [...].

   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 62:

     ‘And I let him overpersuade me. He was right, really.’