[U] gentle attempts to persuade sb to do sth or to get a machine to start:
No amount of coaxing will make me change my mind. * A little coaxing was all it took to get her to say his name. * My car needs a lot of coaxing to start in the winter
coaxing adjective
coaxingly adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for coaxing is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is coaxing a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, coaxing is tagged as noun.
Does coaxing appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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