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Definition of Coaxed
1. coax [v] - See also: coax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coaxed
Literary usage of Coaxed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"Benny took his knife, and Ed-Fred-George coaxed Clarence into a slow, deep fissuring.
They dragged the body into the earthy crack and Clarence swallowed up ..."
2. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson, Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1884)
"The parent coaxed, caressed, admonished, warned, threatened, and finally began
to chastise her rebellious child; but in an unnatural contest the child ..."
3. Letters of Thomas Edward Brown, Author of 'Fo'e'sle Yarns': Author of 'Fo'c by Thomas Edward Brown (1900)
"... which refused on almost any terms to be carried over or coaxed into English,
suggested the fortunate alternative — that ' some one' should write a new ..."
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