Verb [edit]. coax â(third-person singular simple present coaxes, present participle coaxing, simple past and past participle coaxed). ( 1 obsolete) To fondle, kid, pet, tease. 2  To wheedle, persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.he was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man. 1  12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift.
Is it true that WWF legend Yokozuna died due to a fear of spiders? How did he die? No. According to the Wikipedia article about him, On October 23, 2000, AnoaÊ»i died from pulmonary edema in his room at the Moat House Hotel in Liverpool, England while on an independent wrestling tour in Europe.
Pearl Harbor remembered The USS Arizona Memorial, dedicated in 1962, straddles the remains of the battleship sunk during the surprise Japanese air attack, Dec. 7, 1941. The memorial pays tribute to the nearly 1,200 sailors and Marines who died aboard the Pennsylvania-class super-dreadnaught during the attack as well as all of the 2,403 military and civilian personnel who perished that Sunday morning.