seduce
verb/sɪˈdjuːs/
/sɪˈduːs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they seduce | /sɪˈdjuːs/ /sɪˈduːs/ |
| he / she / it seduces | /sɪˈdjuːsɪz/ /sɪˈduːsɪz/ |
| past simple seduced | /sɪˈdjuːst/ /sɪˈduːst/ |
| past participle seduced | /sɪˈdjuːst/ /sɪˈduːst/ |
| -ing form seducing | /sɪˈdjuːsɪŋ/ /sɪˈduːsɪŋ/ |
- seduce somebody to persuade somebody to have sex with you, especially somebody who is younger or who has less experience than you
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- seduce somebody (into something/into doing something) to persuade somebody to do something that they would not usually agree to do by making it seem very attractive synonym entice
- The promise of huge profits seduced him into parting with his money.
- advertisements that seduce us with promises
Word Originlate 15th cent. (originally in the sense ‘persuade (someone) to abandon their duty’): from Latin seducere, from se- ‘away, apart’ + ducere ‘to lead’.
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