coax

coax a smile from the baby

coax a child to take its medicine

coaxed the secret out of the child.

coaxing more speed from the car.

He coaxed the large chair through the narrow door.

She coaxed him to take the medicine.

we coaxed our fare money out of my father.

her lovely hair had been coaxed into ringlets.

Her voice was as overwarm as if she were coaxing a sky child.

She coaxed her son into going to school.

He coaxed extra money from his father.

the trainees were coaxed into doing hard, boring work.

Though she coaxed and pleaded, he refused to go to the dance.

A peasant may seem like the smartest man in the world by coaxing crops from unfertile ground, but he may appear like a perfect idiot when asked to cope with a complicated machine.