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disswade

disswade is the obsolete spelling of dissuade.

Meaning of dissuade

Verb

dissuade (third-person singular simple present dissuades, present participle dissuading, simple past and past participle dissuaded)

  1. (transitive) To convince not to try or do.
    • Jane dissuaded Martha from committing suicide.
    Synonyms:
    unsell

Forms of disswade

third-person singular presentdisswades
present participledisswading
past participledisswaded
pastdisswaded

Questions about disswade

What is disswade the obsolete spelling of?
Disswade is the obsolete spelling of dissuade.

Words near disswade in the dictionary

  1. dissuasory
  2. dissunder
  3. dissundered
  4. dissundering
  5. dissunders
  6. disswade
  7. disswasion
  8. dissyllabic
  9. dissyllabification
  10. dissyllabifications
  11. dissyllabified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disswade (page history and authors); dissuade (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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