Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

talk into

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.34 in modern English

Syllables: talk in-to
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

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

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

talks into (present, singular) talking into (participle, present) talked into (participle, past) talked into (past)

Antonyms

talk out of

Questions

What does talk into mean?: To convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.

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