Entice

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  • transitive verb. To attract (someone), usually to do something, by arousing hope, interest, or desire: synonym: lure.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To draw on or induce by exciting hope or desire; incite by the presentation of pleasurable motives or ideas; allure; attract; invite; especially, in a bad sense, to allure or induce to evil.
  • Synonyms Lure, Decoy, etc. (see allure); tempt, inveigle, wheedle, cajole.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
    • Word Usage
    "Brilliant flowers and birds grace the collage surfaces and intriguing titles entice you into the inner thoughts of the artist."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    disgust  frighten  repel  
    cross-reference
    beguile  seduce  tempt  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    provoke  stimulate  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    bait  call  decoy  hook  lead on  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brice  Bryce  Grice  Nice  Price  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    allure  allure  attract  attract  bait  
    verb-form
    enticed  entices  enticing  
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