Usually means: Persuaded gently to do something.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. coaxed: Merriam-Webster
  2. coaxed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. coaxed: Vocabulary.com
  4. Coaxed, coaxed: Wordnik
  5. coaxed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. coaxed: Wiktionary
  7. Coaxed, coaxed: Dictionary.com
  8. coaxed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Coaxed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Coaxed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. coaxed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. coaxed: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. coaxed: FreeDictionary.org
  14. coaxed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coaxed: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coaxed: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coaxed: Idioms

(Note: See coax as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (coax)

verb:  (obsolete) To fondle, kid, pet, tease.
verb:  (transitive) To wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
verb:  (transitive) To carefully manipulate (someone or something) into a particular desired state, situation or position.
noun:  (obsolete) A simpleton; a dupe.
noun:  Short for coaxial cable. [(electronics, telecommunications) A transmission line, consisting of a conducting wire surrounded by an insulated spacer, surrounded by a cylindrical conducting sheath; used to carry high frequency signals such as TV.]
adjective:  Clipping of coaxial. [(geometry) Having a common central axis]
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