All 3 Uses of
seduce
in
Good Country People
- During the night she had imagined that she seduced him.†
seduced = persuaded someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- She imagined that the two of them walked on the place until they came to the storage barn beyond the two back fields and there, she imagined, that things came to such a pass that she very easily seduced him and that then, of course, she had to reckon with his remorse.†
- She had seduced him without even making up her mind to try.
*seduced = enticed to fall in love
Definitions:
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(1)
(seduce) to persuade someone to do something by tempting them with something pleasurable or desired -- often to make them want to have sex
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
The passive form, seduced can also mean to have won over as in "She was seduced into buying the house by the beautiful yard."