seduced; seducing
1
: to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty
2
: to lead astray usually by persuasion or false promises
3
: to carry out the physical seduction of : entice to sexual intercourse
4
: attract
seducer
noun
Examples of seduce in a Sentence
He tried to seduce her.
She was seduced by an older man.
The other team seduced him with a better offer.
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EW.com, 30 July 2025
Entrepreneurs and investors have been seduced into believing that scaling fast is the right strategy for all startups.
—Tima Bansal, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Following a near two-and-a-half-year hiatus, the premiere episode shows a naked Trump trying to seduce Satan, and came a day after the show's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had reached a $1.5 billion streaming deal with Paramount.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025
As Page, Hewitt is taught by her mother that her beauty is her only asset and learns to trade on it to seduce idiotic rich men and separate them from their money to rapidly diminishing returns.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for seduce
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“Seduce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seduce. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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seduce
verb
se·duce
si-ˈd(y)üs 
seduced; seducing
1
: to persuade to be disobedient or disloyal
2
: to persuade to do wrong
seduced into crime
3
: to persuade to have sexual intercourse especially for the first time
seducer
noun
seduction
noun
-ˈdək-shən
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