transcription, транскрипция: [ tempt ]
( tempts, tempting, tempted)
1.
Something that tempts you attracts you and makes you want it, even though it may be wrong or harmful.
Reducing the income will further impoverish these families and could tempt an offender into further crime...
It is the fresh fruit that tempts me at this time of year...
Can I tempt you with a little puff pastry?...
The fact that she had become wealthy did not tempt her to alter her frugal way of life.
VERB : V n into n / -ing , V n , V n with n , V n to-inf
2.
If you tempt someone, you offer them something they want in order to encourage them to do what you want them to do.
...a million dollar marketing campaign to tempt American tourists back to Britain...
Don’t let credit tempt you to buy something you can’t afford...
She will be offering a package worth about 40 million dollars, to tempt the rebels into agreeing to disarm.
VERB : V n prep / adv , V n to-inf , V n into -ing / n
3.
see also tempted
4.
If someone says that something they say or do is tempting fate or is tempting providence , they mean they are worried that it may cause the good luck they have had so far to end.
As soon as you start to talk about never having played on a losing side, it is tempting fate.
PHRASE : V inflects