Synonyms of the word coax


COAXBLARNEY - CABLE - CAJOLE - INVEIGLE - LINE - PALAVER - PERSUADE - SWEET-TALK - WHEEDLE

coax

  • v. (obsolete) To fondle, kid, pet, tease.
  • v. To wheedle, persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
  • v. To carefully manipulate into a particular desired state, situation or position.
  • n. (obsolete) A simpleton; a dupe.
  • n. Shortened form of coaxial cable.

blarney

  • n. Mindless chatter.
  • n. Ability to talk constantly.
  • n. Persuasive flattery or kind speech; smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.
  • v. To beguile with flattery.

cable

  • n. (material) A long object used to make a physical connection.
  • n. (communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or…
  • n. A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
  • n. (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
  • n. (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
  • n. (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
  • n. (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to…
  • v. (transitive) To provide with cable(s).
  • v. (transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s).
  • v. (transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable.
  • v. (transitive) To send a telegram by cable.
  • v. (intransitive) To communicate by cable.
  • v. (architecture, transitive) To ornament with cabling.

cajole

  • v. (transitive and intransitive) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially…

inveigle

  • v. (transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain through guile or cunning.

line

  • n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
  • n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  • n. Direction, path.
  • n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
  • n. A letter, a written form of communication.
  • n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
  • n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
  • n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  • n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  • n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
  • n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
  • n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  • n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  • n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
  • n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
  • n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  • n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
  • n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
  • n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
  • n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  • n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • n. A measure of length.
  • n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  • n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  • n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
  • n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
  • n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
  • n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  • n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
  • n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
  • v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  • v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
  • v. To form a line along.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
  • v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
  • v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  • n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  • v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

palaver

  • n. (Africa) A village council meeting, a folkmoot.
  • n. Talk, especially unnecessary talk, fuss.
  • n. A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate, a moot.
  • n. (informal) Disagreement.
  • v. To discuss with much talk.

persuade

  • v. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through…
  • v. (transitive, now rare, dialectal) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection,…

sweet-talk

  • v. To flatter.
  • v. To persuade using flattery.

wheedle

  • v. To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
  • v. To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.

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