inveigle

English - Turkish

Definition of inveigle in English Turkish dictionary

{f} ayartmak

{f} baştan çıkarmak

bağlama çekmek

aldat

kandırmak

kandırma

aldatarak bir kimseye iş yaptırmak

inveiglement aldatma

kandır

English - English

Definition of inveigle in English English dictionary

to convert, convince or win over with flattery or wiles

to obtain through guile or cunning

To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle

influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"

{f} seduce, entice

If you inveigle someone into doing something, you cleverly persuade them to do it when they do not really want to. She inveigles Paco into a plot to swindle Tania out of her savings. = cajole. inveigle into to persuade someone to do what you want, especially in a dishonest way inveigle sb into doing sth

Related Terms

ınveigle

{v} to seduce, allure, entice, wheedle

inveigled

past of inveigle

inveigles

third-person singular of inveigle

inveigling

present participle of inveigle

Hyphenation

in·vei·gle

Synonyms

allure, bait, bamboozle, beguile, blandish, butter, cajole, charm, coax, con, decoy, egg on, ensnare, entrap, get around

Antonyms

disenchant, disgust, turn off

Etymology

() * Early corruption of French aveugler (“to blind, to delude”), from aveugle (“blind”), from the Old French avugle (“without eyes”), from Latin ab + oculus (“eye”). The in- might be from other a-/en- variations found in Middle English, which was then latinised into in-.

Tenses

inveigles, inveigling, inveigled