(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you ~ people, you try to encourage them to help you, support you, or vote for you, for example by promising them things which they would like.
They ~ed customers by offering low interest rates...
They are trying to ~ back electoral support.
VERB: V n, V n with adv
~ing
This election has been marked so far by the candidates’ ~ing of each other’s traditional political bases.
N-UNCOUNT: oft poss N, N of n
2.
If a man ~s a woman, he spends time with her and tries to persuade her to marry him. (OLD-FASHIONED)
The penniless author successfully ~ed and married Fanny.
= court
VERB: V n
~ing
...the hero’s ~ing of his beautiful cousin Roxanne.
N-UNCOUNT: oft poss N, N of n