| ambulance chaser |
(informal) a lawyer who persistently seeks accident victims as clients and tries to convince them to sue for damages. |
| a tough nut to crack |
a person who is hard to understand, know well, or convince. [1/2 definitions] |
| blandish |
to convince or coax with flattery; cajole. [2 definitions] |
| bring around |
to persuade (one) to accept a certain line of thought; convince. [1/2 definitions] |
| deprogram |
to convince of the error of recently acquired beliefs, esp. those of a religious cult, by coercive means such as kidnapping, deprivation of sleep, and long interrogation and argumentation. |
| persuade |
to cause (another) to believe something; convince. [1/2 definitions] |
| persuasion |
ability to convince; persuasive force. [1/3 definitions] |
| reason |
to convince by using reason. [1/9 definitions] |
| reconvince |
combined form of convince. |
| seduce |
to convince or beguile into having sexual relations. [1/3 definitions] |
| sell |
to convince or persuade to buy. [1/9 definitions] |
| shill |
an accomplice of a swindler or vendor, who feigns an enthusiastic interest in the goods or deal being offered in order to convince unsuspecting customers to buy or enter into the deal. [1/4 definitions] |
| talk |
to influence; convince. [1/14 definitions] |
| talk down |
to convince (someone) to lower the price of something. [1/3 definitions] |
| talk into |
to convince (someone) to do something by saying positive things about it. |
| talk out of |
to convince (someone) not to do something. |
| win over |
to get (someone) on one's side; to convince (someone) to give support to one's plan or idea. |