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Seduced

Seduce \Se*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seduced; p. pr. & vb. n. Seducing.] [L. seducere, seductum; pref. se- aside + ducere to lead. See Duke.]

  1. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.

    For me, the gold of France did not seduce.
    --Shak.

  2. Specifically, to induce to engage in sexual intercourse.

    Syn: To allure; entice; tempt; attract; mislead; decoy; inveigle. See Allure.

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seduced

vb. (en-past of: seduce)

Usage examples of "seduced".

And when he finally seduced her affections, he would demand her trust and loyalty.

She seduced him with her sweet words, uttered in the confession of a country innocent.

With each scintillating whimper from the back of her throat, each angelic flutter of her kiss, each delicious tremble of her body against his hands, he was seduced himself.

Admitting that he had behaved horribly was bad enough, but telling Sera that while she was seduced she was also carefully interrogated seemed atrocious.

He may have seduced her into sharing her first taste of passion with him, but his gentlemanly instincts refused to allow her brother to suspect worse.

An innocent girl is seduced and betrayed to the gallows, yet you have the gall to be proud of the fact.

Of course, her neighbors thought her affections had been seduced by Gabriel, but to be suspected of carrying his bastard babe?

He wickedly lured you away from your family, seduced you and then wed you out of hand.

Reminding me of some awful thing you might do, however, hardly predisposes me to want to be seduced by you.

It was not at all safe to let him think he had seduced her and carried her off into the night.

Sterling was hardly the kind of man she would have chosen to be seduced by if such choice was ever given a woman!

Perhaps it was instinctive for a woman to want to believe the man who had just seduced her.

He had forced her to move into his townhouse, seduced her into sharing his bed, distrusted her, accused her of theft and used his well-honed seductive powers on her.

Only three cats had been seduced from the track by hooligans who hooted like owls to scare the cats into skidding off the track, or hollered like fishmongers, waving overripe fish or raw chicken legs.

And her soul felt itself soaring, lifted by the bewitching happiness that, for two weeks, had seduced but had, even more, astonished her.