wooverb [ T ]
uk/wuː/us/wuː/present participle wooing, past tense and past participle wooedto try to persuade someone to support you or to use your business:
The party has been trying to woo the voters with promises of electoral reform.
The airline has been offering discounted tickets to woo passengers away from their competitors.
old-fashioned If a man woos a woman, he gives her a lot of attention in an attempt to persuade her to marry him:
He wooed her for months with flowers and expensive presents.
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Urging & persuading
- argumentation
- blag
- brainwash
- bring
- browbeat
- butter
- get sth out of sb
- incite
- persuasion
- preach
- press-gang
- prevail on/upon sb
- proselytize
- rush sb into (doing) sth
- sucker sb into sth
- swing
- talk sb down
- talk sb out of sth
- twist
- work on sb
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