OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 26764

tempt

/tɛmpt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acodiciar • acudiciar (disused) • tentar
To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
Eveline Hill, the protagonist of the Dubliners story "Eveline," for example, successfully extricates herself from the confines of her "Eve" name since, like her nameling in the Gar…
She tempted me to eat the apple.
acodiciar • acudiciar (disused) • tentar
To attract; to allure.
Its glossy skin tempted me.
The next time you are trout fishing and none of your lures tempts the fish, smoke a spoon hook and cast it.