intransitive verb. To persuade or try to persuade by pleading or flattery; cajole.

intransitive verb. To obtain by persistent persuasion.

intransitive verb. To caress; fondle.

intransitive verb. To move to or adjust toward a desired end.

intransitive verb. To use persuasion or inducement.

noun. A simpleton; gull; dupe; fool.

To fondle; caress; flatter; fool with flattery or caresses.

To persuade by fond pleading or flattery; wheedle; cajole.

Hence To manage or guide carefully; control in a gentle way: as, to coax a horse into a trot.

To use cajolery or gentle pleading.

noun. A simpleton; a dupe.

transitive verb. To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.

verb. to fondle, kid, pet, tease

verb. To wheedle, persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.

verb. To manipulate carefully into a particular situation or position.

noun. A simpleton; a dupe.

noun. Shortened form of coaxial cable

verb. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

noun. a transmission line for high-frequency signals

"Keating is even the kind of educator who can coax from a shy, stuttering student (Ethan Hawke) Walt Whitman's famed "barbaric yawp.""

bluster  bully  compel  intimidate  

Cokes  Ochs  blokes  chokes  cokes  

conciliatory  easygoing  endear  flirtatious  girlish  

advocate  allure  apply pressure  bait  bait the hook  

coaxed  coaxes  coaxing