ENTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entice mean? 

• ENTICE (verb)
  The verb ENTICE has 1 sense:

1. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion

  Familiarity information: ENTICE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTICE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they entice    ... he / she / it entices   
Past simple: enticed   
Past participle: enticed   
-ing form: enticing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

entice; lure; tempt

Context example:

He lured me into temptation

Hypernyms (to "entice" is one way to...):

provoke; stimulate (provide the needed stimulus for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "entice"):

hook; snare (entice and trap)

seduce (lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct)

call (lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal)

stool (lure with a stool, as of wild fowl)

lead on (entice or induce especially when unwise or mistaken)

tweedle (entice through the use of music)

decoy (lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy)

bait (lure, entice, or entrap with bait)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something

Sentence example:

They entice him to write the letter

Derivation:

enticement (the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire)

enticement (qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward)

enticement (something that seduces or has the quality to seduce)

 Context examples 

In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working hard to better understand these enticing worlds just 40 light-years away.

(New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres, NASA)

It also related that once when Red-Cap was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice her from the path.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence, while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Children were enticed in as models, till their incoherent accounts of her mysterious doings caused Miss Amy to be regarded in the light of a young ogress.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To entice a man in cold blood with the object of murdering him is another, whatever danger you may fear from him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I believe these villains have enticed him out by some devilish device of their own. Hold the lamp, nephew. Ha! I thought so. Here are his footmarks upon the flower-bed outside.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I love my love with an E, because she's enticing; I hate her with an E, because she's engaged.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then he had but to bring out the old romance book from the priory, with befingered cover of sheepskin and gold letters upon a purple ground, to entice her wayward mind back to the paths of learning.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Perhaps it was to this that the golden colour was due; but golden his eyes were, enticing and masterful, at the same time luring and compelling, and speaking a demand and clamour of the blood which no woman, much less Maud Brewster, could misunderstand.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

While such honey-dew fell, such silence reigned, such gloaming gathered, I felt as if I could haunt such shade for ever; but in threading the flower and fruit parterres at the upper part of the enclosure, enticed there by the light the now rising moon cast on this more open quarter, my step is stayed—not by sound, not by sight, but once more by a warning fragrance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)