none could dissuade you, friend nor foe, keep either of you from that hapless trip when you two went swimming out the bay. which best matches the meaning of dissuade in the sentence? A discourage
B. explain C. firmly command
d. invite to participate
A, discourage you can tell because if you plug in the options that is the only one that makes sense and the opposite of dissuade is persuade which means to encourage.
