beguile
- Verb:
- To charm or enchant someone, often in a deceptive way: To attract or fascinate someone, sometimes to distract them or gain an advantage.
- To trick or deceive someone: To mislead someone through cunning or guile.
- To pass (time) pleasantly: To make time pass in an enjoyable way, often as a distraction from something tedious.
Verb (To charm/enchant): The storyteller's voice beguiled the entire audience, holding them spellbound. She has a way of beguiling people with her smile and wit.
Verb (To trick/deceive): The con artist beguiled the elderly couple out of their life savings. He was beguiled into signing the contract without reading the fine print.
Verb (To pass time pleasantly): We beguiled the long train journey by playing cards and telling stories. She beguiled the hours of waiting by reading a novel.
"to beguile someone into something": to trick or lure someone into a particular action or state. The advertisement beguiled consumers into believing the product had miraculous powers.
"to beguile the time": a somewhat literary way to say to make time pass agreeably. The prisoners beguiled the time by carving small figures from wood.
Beguiler (noun): A person who beguiles; a charmer or deceiver. He was a charming beguiler who could talk anyone into anything.
Beguiling (adjective): Charming or enchanting, often with a hint of trickery. She spoke in a beguiling tone that was hard to resist.
- Charm: To attract or delight.
- Enchant: To fill with delight.
- Deceive: To cause to believe something false.
- Delude: To mislead the mind or judgment.
- While away: To pass (time) in a leisurely manner.
- Beguile out of: To deceive someone in order to obtain something from them.
- "Beguile the senses": To delight or enchant one's sight, hearing, etc., sometimes misleadingly.
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attract; cause to be enamored
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She captured all the men's hearts
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influence by slyness
