Vocabulary

Form

to give up (an idea or plan); to abandon; to refrain from (doing); to change one's mind

verb vt
freq #900

Example sentences

He was about to explode, but checked himself.

I argued her out of going skiing.

My parents discouraged me from traveling alone.

Keiko's parents talked her out of dating him.

I discouraged him from going swimming as it was likely to rain.

Bad weather discouraged them from going on a picnic.

We must talk her out of this foolish plan.

She was discouraged from publishing her first novel.