entice
/ɪnˈtaɪs/ verb C1- To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope. · I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.
He/she/it entices · Past enticed · Past participle enticed · -ing form enticing
Verb forms
- Base form
- entice
- He/she/it
- entices
- Past
- enticed
- Past participle
- enticed
- -ing form
- enticing
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He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own.
The Partridge earnestly begged him to spare his life, saying, “Pray, master, permit me to live and I will entice many Partridges to you in recompense for your mercy to me.” The Fowler replied, “I shall now with less scruple take your life, because you are willing to save it at the cost of betraying your friends and relations.”
He argued that it enticed men with the calmness of its looks, but when it had induced them to plow its waters, it grew rough and destroyed them.
He felt as he had once felt in his rash youth when another boy had enticed him on the merry-go-round at a picnic.
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