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enticeen‧tice /ɪnˈtaɪs/ verb [transitive]   enticeOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French enticier, from Latin titio ‘large burning piece of wood’ VERB TABLEentice |
| Present | I, you, we, they | entice | | he, she, it | entices | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | enticed | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have enticed | | he, she, it | has enticed | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had enticed | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will entice | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have enticed |
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| Present | I | am enticing | | he, she, it | is enticing | | you, we, they | are enticing | | Past | I, he, she, it | was enticing | | you, we, they | were enticing | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been enticing | | he, she, it | has been enticing | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been enticing | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be enticing | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been enticing |
- The ads entice young people to smoke.
- The banks are offering special low rates in an attempt to entice prospective customers.
- The company hopes to entice shareholders into agreeing to a merger.
- A recruiter entices the poor and the homeless with promises of employment, good wages, food and shelter.
- Each member of the relay race needs to entice others to be on the team.
- On Saturday I phone my city children to entice them out for Thanksgiving, dangling before them mountain marvels and prepaid tickets.
- She intrigued him and enticed him and infuriated him.
to persuade someone by making something seem very good► tempt to make someone want to do something by making it seem enjoyable, exciting etc: · Travel companies tempt people with special offers.tempt somebody to do something: · The club is giving away free T-shirts in order to tempt people to join.· The arrangement tempts employees to win contracts even by illegal means.tempt somebody into doing something: · Don't be tempted into betting money on the horses. ► lure to persuade someone to go somewhere or to do something, especially something which they should not do, or something that might harm them: lure somebody into/to/away etc: · The boy apparently lured the girl into his bedroom and attacked her.lure somebody into doing something: · Peasants were lured into joining the People's Army by the promises of large sums of money for their families. ► entice to offer someone something they want in order to persuade them to do something: · The banks are offering special low rates in an attempt to entice prospective customers.entice somebody to do something: · The ads entice young people to smoke.entice somebody into doing something: · The company hopes to entice shareholders into agreeing to a merger. ADVERB► more· Even more enticing are Ciudad's drinks.· Those numbers have become more enticing to Sen. VERB► try· As soon as he sees one, he will try to entice her to his nest.· Working parents can also try to entice grandparents to move nearby.· A major faux pas is trying to entice users on one channel to your own channel.· The chiefs renege on the deal and she is stabbed as she tries to entice Odoff herself.· I hung like a bird in the water overhead, watching for the octopus he was trying to entice.· They have people hanging about outside on the pavement trying to entice gullible idiots in. to persuade someone to do something or go somewhere, usually by offering them something that they wantentice into/away/from etc The birds were enticed back into Britain 40 years ago.entice somebody/something to do something Our special offers are intended to entice people to buy.—enticement noun [countable, uncountable] |