woo
/wuː/ verb C1- To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support. · They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.
- Often of a man, to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with.
- To court solicitously; to invite with importunity; to solicit in love.
He/she/it woos · Past wooed · Past participle wooed · -ing form wooing
Verb forms
- Base form
- woo
- He/she/it
- woos
- Past
- wooed
- Past participle
- wooed
- -ing form
- wooing
From the library
“You would have thought the middle of that prairie a fairly safe place for a man to be private,” said he, “but, by thunder, the whole countryside seems to have been out to see me do my wooing—and a mighty poor wooing at that!
Then my roommate, Ji-woo, who had grown up helping in her parents' restaurant, offered to teach me.
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