coaxes in English

verb

1

persuade (someone) gradually or by flattery to do something.

the trainees were coaxed into doing hard, boring work

synonyms: persuade, wheedle, cajole, get around, beguile, seduce, inveigle, maneuver, sweet-talk, soft-soap, butter up, twist someone's arm

noun

1

coaxial cable.

After all, you can't lay fiber, buy cable modems and pay for cable TV with surplus coax .

verb

• persuade, wheedle, cajole, get around, beguile, seduce, inveigle, maneuver, sweet-talk, soft-soap, butter up, twist someone's arm
• palaver, inveigle, sweet-talk, blarney, cajole, wheedle

noun

• coax cable, coaxial cable

Use "coaxes" in a sentence

1. Antonyms for Browbeats include lures, tempts, beguiles, coaxes, entices, flatters, maneuvers, manoeuvres, seduces and aids

2. Coax (third-person singular simple present Coaxes, present participle Coaxing, simple past and past participle Coaxed) To fondle, kid, pet, tease

3. A bottom plodder by nature, a startled common snapper coaxes grace from its heavy, muscled body as it swims across a Florida pond.

4. Of Speculation, in a way that it coaxes the reader to fixate on the asterisks between the short sections.”―Reluctant Habits “Faces in the Crowd is a subtle, sophisticated examination of identity, authenticity, and poetry