woo

/wuː/ verbe C1

En français : courtiser, faire la cour

To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support. (transitive) · 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. (transitive)
To court solicitously; to invite with importunity; to solicit in love. (transitive)

He/she/it woos · Prétérit wooed · Participe passé wooed · Forme en -ing wooing

Formes du verbe

Forme de base: woo
He/she/it: woos
Prétérit: wooed
Participe passé: wooed
Forme en -ing: wooing

Dans la bibliothèque

“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!

The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 109 · C1

Then my roommate, Ji-woo, who had grown up helping in her parents' restaurant, offered to teach me.

Every teenager should learn to cook, p. 1 · B2

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