dissuade

The point of publishing all the scary stats is not to dissuade people from being professional musicians.

This information can hopefully help dissuade other Muslims from joining or financially supporting ISIS.

The argument also went that the lack of publicity would dissuade would-be hostage-takers from bothering to grab reporters.

Those excuses would do little to dissuade those enforcing the statute, if the U.S. had concrete proof of the suspected killings.

Solmaz says she has never seen police try to round up or dissuade the dealers who work around Khaneye Honarmanan.

He tried to dissuade her from it, those aeronautic expeditions not being free from danger.

He used his influence to prevent any attack on the ducalists and dissuade the Livornese from secession.

The infant seeks to grasp the burning lamp;—the parent endeavors to dissuade him from it.

Later, however, she became resigned and did not try to dissuade her husband from accompanying the fallen Emperor.

I attempted earnestly to dissuade them from this, but they wept pitifully and implored me to let them come.