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coaxes

/kəʊksɪz/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To fondle, kid, pet, tease.
  2. To wheedle, persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
  3. To carefully manipulate into a particular desired state, situation or position.
  4. One of the directional motion vectors perpendicular to a cocone.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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