To lead astray or into error, as a false guide; to mislead, seduce, deceive (the trustful).

transitive. To deceive, lead astray.

transitive. To ensnare; to take unawares by craft or guile; to overcome, overreach, or get the better of by trickery; to beguile or betray into…

transitive. To persuade or entice (a person or animal) to come out into the open or leave a place of safety or comfort; to lure (a person or…

transitive. To beguile (a person); to beguile (a person) to disaster. Obsolete.

To draw or entice (a person) in, into a place; also on, along, out of a thing.

To decoy (from or to a place), to lead astray (into). Obsolete except with notion of sense 2.

To lead unawares, betray into doing something not intended.

To ensnare or decoy (a person) into (a criminal activity, a gambling den, etc.); to take (a person) into custody.

transitive. To beset (literal and figurative); to bar (a way; with dative of person); to surround, invest (a city, etc.); to waylay, entrap (a…

transitive. In extended sense, to guide something that is in motion. In various applications. To guide, lead, ‘pilot’ (a person) through a crowd…