seduce

Definition of seduce in English English dictionary: To win over or attract someone; To beguile or lure someone away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct. To lead astray; To entice or induce someone to engage in a sexual relationship; to entice to surrender chastity; {v} to lead astray by arts, entice from duty, debauch; induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally; {f} tempt, entice, lure; lead astray, corrupt; persuade to engage in sexual activity; If something seduces you, it is so attractive that it makes you do something that you would not otherwise do. The view of lake and plunging cliffs seduces visitors Clever advertising would seduce more people into smoking. + seduction seductions se·duc·tion The country had resisted the seductions of mass tourism; lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct; "She was seduced by the temptation of easy money and started to work in a massage parlor"; To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt; induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally"; If someone seduces another person, they use their charm to persuade that person to have sex with them. She has set out to seduce Stephen. + seduction se·duc·tion Her methods of seduction are subtle; Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation
seduced: Simple past tense and past participle of seduce
seducer: someone who seduces, especially a man who seduces a woman
seducer: {n} one who draws aside from the right
seduced: past of seduce
seducer: a man who takes advantage of women a bad person who entices others into error or wrong-doing
seducer: {i} tempter, one who entices; one who corrupts, one who leads astray; one who persuades a person to engage in sexual activity
seducer: A seducer is someone, usually a man, who seduces someone else. He is proud of his reputation as a seducer of young women. a man who persuades someone to have sex with him seductress
seducer: One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions
seducer: a bad person who entices others into error or wrong-doing
seducer: a man who takes advantage of women
seduces: third-person singular of seduce
seducing: Seductive
seducing: present participle of seduce

seduce

Hyphenation

se·duce

Turkish pronunciation

sîdus

Synonyms

bait, beguile, betray, bribe, coax, deceive, decoy, delude, draw, entice, entrap, hook, induce, inveigle, invite

Antonyms

disenchant, turn off

Pronunciation

/səˈdo͞os/ /sɪˈduːs/

Etymology

[ si-düs, -dyüs ] (transitive verb.) 15th century. Borrowed from Latin seducere (“to lead apart or astray”), from se- (“aside, away, astray”) + ducere (“to lead”); see duct. Compare adduce, conduce, deduce, etc.

Tenses

seduces, seducing, seduced

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