All 12 Uses
seduce
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Dreaming in Cuban
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- ORDINARY SEDUCTIONS (1972).†
Chpt 1.1
- She would be feted at the palace, serenaded by a brass orchestra, seduced by El Líder himself on a red velvet divan.†
Chpt 1.1seduced = persuaded someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- Felicia felt her ample, dimpled behind quake seductively as she moved.†
Chpt 1.6seductively = in a sexually attractive manner; or in a manner that tends to persuade someone to do something by tempting with something desired
- Death was alluring, seductive, and Celia longed to die in the thrill of it over and over again.†
Chpt 1.6seductive = sexually attractive; or persuasive by tempting with something desired
- Memory is a skilled seducer.†
Chpt 1.7seducer = someone who persuades someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- I accept it the way I accept my husband and my daughters and my life on the wicker swing, my life of ordinary seductions.†
Chpt 1.7
- The town has arrived for what promises to be a lively fight: Ester Ugarte, the postmaster's wife, has accused Loli Regalado of seducing her husband, a charge that Loli vehemently denies.†
Chpt 2.8seducing = persuading someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- She was seducing my Rogelio!†
Chpt 2.8
- Did you or did you not attempt to seduce Compañera Regalado against her will on the afternoon of October twenty-third?†
Chpt 2.8seduce = persuade someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
- I did try to seduce her.
Chpt 2.8 *seduce = to entice someone into having sex
- Lourdes exaggerated her steps, flawless and lilting, teasing the rhythm seductively.†
Chpt 3.16seductively = in a sexually attractive manner; or in a manner that tends to persuade someone to do something by tempting with something desired
- The duende, her head thrown back in throaty seduction, called to me through the poet.†
Chpt 3.16seduction = the process of persuading someone to want something (often sex or love) by tempting with something desired
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 participate in sexual activity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)