COAX | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Meaning of coax in English
coax someone into doing something Perhaps you could coax your father into taking you to the station . coax someone to do something I coaxed her to eat a little bit .
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(Definition of coax from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Examples of coax
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Watching them, you wonder what would coax these young women to a strict life of prayer, teaching, study and silence.
And so she had to really coax the teachers, and be on top of them, to get updates.
That excess growth could, potentially, coax the petal to go from curving in inside the bud to curving out.
One technique, known as melodic intonation therapy, uses music to coax portions of the brain into taking over for those that are damaged.
The experience of watching it is like being nudged out of a coma for an hour and a half, then gently coaxed back into it.
Eventually, the people around coaxed her to leave and the police officer followed.
By coaxing the subject to imagine the scene, you could accelerate this confabulation.
You have to coax it or force it or trick it.
Applying special software, the government says, they coaxed words from the innocuous imagery, a text file.
The other is the swarm of marketing events that companies, organizations and governments throw to coax a headline or two out of visiting journalists.
The sun -- with the power to warm the earth, fuel spring's renewal, coax buds into leaves -- peeped out from behind a cloud.
The rising sales levels have yet to coax more sellers into the market.
By taking many copies of the protein, they coaxed them into forming a patterned, crystalline lattice (see photo).
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Translations of coax
in Chinese (Traditional)
哄勸, 哄騙, 勸誘…
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哄劝, 哄骗, 劝诱…
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convencer, persuadir…
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persuadir, convencer (com paciência)…
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güzellikle inandırmak, güzellikle ikna etmek, gönlünü yapmak…
namawiać, nakłaniać, wyciągać…
lirka med, truga, övertala…
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