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beguilebe‧guile /bɪˈɡaɪl/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEbeguile |
Present | I, you, we, they | beguile | | he, she, it | beguiles | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | beguiled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have beguiled | | he, she, it | has beguiled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had beguiled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will beguile | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have beguiled |
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Present | I | am beguiling | | he, she, it | is beguiling | | you, we, they | are beguiling | Past | I, he, she, it | was beguiling | | you, we, they | were beguiling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been beguiling | | he, she, it | has been beguiling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been beguiling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be beguiling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been beguiling |
- a slick salesman who beguiles unwary investors
- They beguiled the hours away on a rowboat.
- All her life she had been beguiled by physical beauty in men and in women.
- That does not suggest the outrage that a perusal of Hansard might beguile readers into expecting.
- The sea had been blue and calm, beguiling the unwary.
- Therefore you can happily build word pictures with which to beguile and captivate an audience.
1to interest and attract someone: She was beguiled by his smooth talk.2to persuade or trick someone into doing somethingbeguile somebody into doing something He was beguiled into buying another copy of her book.3literary to do something that makes the time pass in an enjoyable way |