Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - inveigle
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(inveigles, inveigling, inveigled) If you inveigle someone into doing something, you cleverly persuade them to do it when they do not really want to. (FORMAL) She inveigles Paco into a plot to swindle Tania out of her savings. = cajole VERB: V n into n/-ing ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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transitive verb (~d; inveigling) Etymology: Anglo-French enveegler, aveogler, avogler to blind, hoodwink, from avogle, enveugle blind, from Medieval Latin ab oculis, literally, lacking eyes Date: 1539 1. to win over by wiles ; entice 2. to acquire by ingenuity or flattery ; wangle ~d her way into a promotion Synonyms: see lure • ~ment noun • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (foll. by into, or to + infin.) entice; persuade by guile. Derivatives inveiglement n. Etymology: earlier enve(u)gle f. AF envegler, OF aveugler to blind f. aveugle blind prob. f. Rmc ab oculis (unrecorded) without eyes ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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v. заманивать, завлекать; соблазнять to inveigle smb. into doing smth. - обманом побудить кого-л. сделать что-л. ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1494, from M.Fr. aveugler "delude, make blind," from V.L. *aboculus "without sight, blind," from L. ab- "without" + oculus "eye." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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