beguile
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /bɪˈɡaɪl/
beguile (beguiles, present participle beguiling; past and past participle beguiled)
- (transitive) To deceive or delude (using guile).
- ante 1608 William Shakespeare, King Lear, II, II, 102.
- I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you, in a plain accent, was a plain knave.
- ante 1608 William Shakespeare, King Lear, II, II, 102.
- (transitive) To charm, delight or captivate.
- 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
- I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
- I will never touch The Orb, even though its mysterious glow seduces and beguiles.
- 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
- (transitive) To cause (time) to seem to pass quickly, by way of pleasant diversion.
- French: duper, tromper, induire en erreur
- German: irreleiten, irreführen, in die Irre führen
- Italian: ingannare, turlupinare
- Portuguese: enganar
- Russian: обма́нывать
- Spanish: engañar
- French: exalter, emporter, ravir
- German: betören, verführen
- Italian: incantare, distogliere, sedurre, adulare, lusingare
- Portuguese: entreter, distrair, encantar
- Russian: очаро́вывать
- Spanish: encanto engañador, encanto secretivo, encanto oculto, cautivar
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