entice
/ɪnˈtaɪs/ verbo C1En español: incitar, tentar, engolosinar, engatusar
- 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 · Pasado enticed · Participio pasado enticed · Forma en -ing enticing
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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.
They had a very good time and nothing untoward happened until after tea, when they found themselves in the Barry garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe for any enticing form of mischief which might present itself.
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.”
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