Seduce

Word SEDUCE
Character 6
Hyphenation se duce
Pronunciations /sɪˈdjuːs/

Definitions and meanings of "Seduce"

What do we mean by seduce?

To attract or lead (someone) away from proper behavior or thinking: synonym: lure. transitive verb

To induce (someone) to engage in sexual activity, as by flirting or persuasion. transitive verb

To entice into a different state or position. transitive verb

To lead aside or astray; entice away from duty, legal obligation, or rectitude, as by promises, bribes, etc.; corrupt; specifically, to entice (a woman) to a surrender of chastity. See seduction, 2.

Synonyms Lure, Decoy, etc. See allure, and list under entice.

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. transitive verb

Specifically, to induce to engage in sexual intercourse. transitive verb

To beguile or lure someone away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct. To lead astray. verb

To entice or induce someone to engage in a sexual relationship verb

To win over or attract someone verb

Induce to have sex verb

Lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct verb

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.

(by extension) To have sexual intercourse with.

To win over or attract.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Seduce

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The word "seduce" in example sentences

I especially enjoyed juxtaposing the scientific and the erotic, as when Jennet and Ben Franklin seduce each other while performing an experiment with a rotating sulphur ball. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Averages again seduce us away from minute observation. ❋ Unknown (1860)

"His own mouth condemns him," exclaimed the impostor; "he confesses that his intention was to seduce from the way of salvation our well-beloved sister in God; away with him to the dungeon; to-morrow he dies the death; we are manifestly called upon to make an example, tremendous and appalling, to scare the children of sin from our asylum of the saved." ❋ Unknown (1826)

Or an ungodly witness is one that profanely and atheistically witnesses against religion and godliness, whose instructions seduce from the words of knowledge (v. 27); such a one scorns judgment, laughs at the terrors of the Lord, mocks at that fear, Job xv. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Sadly, SoWhat and The Round can't even master the "seduce" part of the equation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kill discreetly two minotaurs since their body parts are highly sought commodities - it is a sacrilege to even provoke the powerful and long lived beings as they have a storied past helping Caeli Amur against enemies - so, using the oldest trick in the book, Kata goes bar-hopping to "seduce" her victims. ❋ Liviu (2010)

They got caught explaoiting her to "seduce" superdelegates and celebs, so they lashed back at the messenger under the guise of misogyny. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Is it possible that girls could have a desire, in their heart of hearts, to 'seduce' the father, emotionally at least, because this would mean having more power in the family ...?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

The inference I took is that they got called on exploiting Chelsea in an act of desperation to try to "seduce" superdelegates and celebs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Endemically corrupt, it can only survive if it can "seduce" the opposition. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm completely comfortable and confident of my ability to 'seduce' someone, the only thing I lack at this point is a reason to go further when the person across from me doesn't possess the same comfort. ❋ Indiankurtis (2008)

The basic theme of this is that two young men "seduce" an older woman - who has just left her philandering husband - and take her to the Heaven's Mouth beach. ❋ Unknown (2005)

No further mention of her was made on WWF programming, except for a backstage promo by the Right to Censor where Steven Richards asked Val Venus "How could you let her do that to you?" regarding the storyline where the The APA and The King had The Kat 'seduce' Val. ❋ ~~ Sabre ~~ (2007)

They flew fom their home lofts to "seduce" your competitors' birds to your home. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Once Freud had adopted his notion (actually borrowed from Fliess) of infantile sexuality and had endowed all children with a wish to "seduce" a parent, it became useful for him to claim that his patients had symmetrically (mis) remembered their own "seductions." ❋ Blum, Harold P. (1994)

Massive media campaign is being launched to 'seduce' people into voluntarily receiving the H1N1 shot at mass vaccination sites which intend to vaccinate 75000 people per day, with a goal of giving 75% of the population the shot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

ACORN activist James O'Keefe who tried to prank CNN by attempting to "seduce" reporter Abbie ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stone, who is working on a 10-part documentary on the 20th century titled "The Secret History of the United States," said the German dictator was "enabled by Western bankers" and managed to "seduce" Germany's military industrial complex. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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