dissuade

1. V-T If you dissuade someone from doing or believing something, you persuade them not to do or believe it. 勸阻[正式]

Doctors had tried to dissuade patients from smoking. 醫(yī)生曾試圖說服病人不要抽煙。

She steadfastly maintained that her grandsons were innocent, and nothing could dissuade her from that belief. 她始終堅(jiān)持她的孫子們是無辜的，沒有什么能改變她的這一信念。