SEDUCE


Meaning of SEDUCE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ sɪdju:s, AM -du:s ]

( seduces, seducing, seduced)

1.

If something seduces you, it is so attractive that it makes you do something that you would not otherwise do.

The view of lake and plunging cliffs seduces visitors...

Clever advertising would seduce more people into smoking.

VERB : V n , V n into -ing / n

• se‧duc‧tion

(seductions)

The country had resisted the seductions of mass tourism.

N-VAR

2.

If someone seduces another person, they use their charm to persuade that person to have sex with them.

She has set out to seduce Stephen.

VERB : V n

• se‧duc‧tion

Her methods of seduction are subtle.

N-VAR

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