talk into

present singular third person talks into · participle present talking into · participle past talked into · past talked into

1. transitiveTo convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.

   She talked him into making the investment.

   2 more examples

   At the beginning, I wasn't keen on working the weekend shift, but my boss talked me into it.

   It’s still hard to accept that an abstract geographic rivalry resulted in the murders of the genre’s two biggest stars, but that was what happened. They’d talked themselves into it.

   2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN

   Antonyms: talk out of