inveigle
verb/ɪnˈveɪɡl/
/ɪnˈveɪɡl/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they inveigle | /ɪnˈveɪɡl/ /ɪnˈveɪɡl/ |
| he / she / it inveigles | /ɪnˈveɪɡlz/ /ɪnˈveɪɡlz/ |
| past simple inveigled | /ɪnˈveɪɡld/ /ɪnˈveɪɡld/ |
| past participle inveigled | /ɪnˈveɪɡld/ /ɪnˈveɪɡld/ |
| -ing form inveigling | /ɪnˈveɪɡlɪŋ/ /ɪnˈveɪɡlɪŋ/ |
- inveigle somebody/yourself (into something/into doing something) to achieve control over somebody in a clever and dishonest way, especially so that they will do what you want
- He inveigled himself into her affections (= dishonestly made her love him).
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘beguile, deceive’; formerly also as enveigle): from Anglo-Norman French envegler, alteration of Old French aveugler ‘to blind’, from aveugle ‘blind’.Definitions on the go
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