coaxed

Verb

coax (third-person singular simple present coaxes, present participle coaxing, simple past and past participle coaxed)

1. (obsolete) To fondle, kid, pet, tease.

   Synonyms:

   caress, grope, touch up, canoodle, chuckle, cosset, dally, dandle, dawt, faddle

2. (transitive) To wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
   • She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   cajole, canoodle, persuade, tease, trap, wheedle

3. (transitive) To carefully manipulate (someone or something) into a particular desired state, situation or position.
   • They coaxed the rope through the pipe.

   Synonyms:

   ease, surprise

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