Usually means: Persuade someone through flattery, coaxing.
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  1. cajole: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cajole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cajole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cajole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cajole: Vocabulary.com
  6. cajole: Wordnik
  7. cajole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cajole: Wiktionary
  9. cajole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cajole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cajole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cajole, cajole: Dictionary.com
  13. cajole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cajole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cajole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cajole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cajole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cajole: Rhymezone
  19. cajole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cajole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cajole: Free Dictionary
  22. cajole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cajole: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. cajole: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. cajole: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAJOLE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. CAJOLE: Encyclopedia

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  1. cajole: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cajole: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cajoled as well.)

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verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.
noun:  The act of cajoling

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