Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - seduce
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Seduce
seduce
~ v T often passive 1 to persuade someone to have sex with you, especially someone who is younger than you or in a weaker position than you (The head lecturer here was sacked for seducing female students.) 2 to make someone want to do something by making it seem very attractive or interesting to them (seduce sb into doing sth) (Jim was seduced into leaving the company by the offer of higher pay.) - seducer n
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(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 • seduction (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 • seduction Her methods of seduction are subtle. N-VAR ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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transitive verb (~d; seducing) Etymology: Late Latin ~re, from Latin, to lead away, from se- apart + ducere to lead — more at tow Date: 15th century 1. to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty 2. to lead astray usually by persuasion or false promises 3. to carry out the physical seduction of ; entice to sexual intercourse 4. attract Synonyms: see lure • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 tempt or entice into sexual activity or into wrongdoing. 2 coax or lead astray; tempt (seduced by the smell of coffee). Derivatives seducer n. seducible adj. Etymology: L seducere seduct- (as SE-, ducere lead) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. соблазнить, обольстить; совратить to seduce a woman —- соблазнить женщину 2. (часто into) заманивать; совращать to seduce smb. into crime —- толкать кого-л. на путь преступления to allow oneself to be seduced by wealth —- польститься на богатство these doctrines seduced many into error —- это учение завело многих на ложный путь they seduced him into their faction —- они заманивали его в свою фракцию to seduce smb. out of the right way —- сбить кого-л. с пути истинного 3. (from) отклонить (от чего-л.) to seduce smb. from his duty —- толкнуть кого-л. на нарушение долга to seduce smb. from home —- выманить кого-л. из родного дома, уговорить кого-л. покинуть родной дом ambition seduced him from simple life —- честолюбие вынудило его отказаться от простой жизни 4. прельщать, пленять I was seduced by the beauty of the landscape —- меня пленила красота пейзажа ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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into заманивать, совращать Jim had been seduced into a life of crime by his friends. SEDUCE v. 1) соблазнять, обольщать; совращать; to seduce a woman - соблазнить женщину; to seduce smb. out of the right way - сбить кого-л. с пути истинного 2) пленять; I was seduced by the beauty of the landscape. - seduce from - seduce into Syn: see tempt SEDUCE from отклонить (от чего-л.); заставить забыть (что-л.) It doesnt take much to seduce me from my work. ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1526, from L. seducere "lead away, lead astray," from se- "aside, away" + ducere "to lead." Replaced M.E. seduisen (1477), from M.Fr. sйduire "seduce," from O.Fr. suduire "to corrupt, seduce," from L. subducere "draw away, withdraw, remove," from sub- "from under, further" + ducere "to lead." Originally of allegiance or service; sexual sense is from 1560. Seductive is from 1771; seductress is from 1803. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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