SEDUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seduce mean? 

• SEDUCE (verb)
  The verb SEDUCE has 2 senses:

1. induce to have sex

2. lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct

  Familiarity information: SEDUCE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEDUCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they seduce    ... he / she / it seduces   
Past simple: seduced   
Past participle: seduced   
-ing form: seducing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Induce to have sex

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

make; score; seduce

Context example:

Harry made Sally

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

persuade (cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm)

"Seduce" entails doing...:

bang; be intimate; bed; bonk; do it; eff; fuck; get it on; get laid; have a go at it; have intercourse; have it away; have it off; have sex; hump; jazz; know; lie with; love; make love; make out; roll in the hay; screw; sleep together; sleep with (have sexual intercourse with)

Verb group:

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

seducer (a man who takes advantage of women)

seduction (an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

She was seduced by the temptation of easy money and started to work in a massage parlor

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

entice; lure; tempt (provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion)

Verb group:

make; score; seduce (induce to have sex)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

seducer (a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing)

seduction (enticing someone astray from right behavior)

 Context examples 

In a week’s time he seduced me down to the door.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He had left the girl whose youth and innocence he had seduced, in a situation of the utmost distress, with no creditable home, no help, no friends, ignorant of his address!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Emma was very willing now to acquit her of having seduced Mr. Dixon's actions from his wife, or of any thing mischievous which her imagination had suggested at first.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Temptation was the topic they had hit upon, and from the few words I heard I made out that he was contending that temptation was temptation only when a man was seduced by it and fell.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

After a short silence, he told me, he did not know how I would take what he was going to say: that in the last general assembly, when the affair of the Yahoos was entered upon, the representatives had taken offence at his keeping a Yahoo (meaning myself) in his family, more like a Houyhnhnm than a brute animal; that he was known frequently to converse with me, as if he could receive some advantage or pleasure in my company; that such a practice was not agreeable to reason or nature, or a thing ever heard of before among them; the assembly did therefore exhort him either to employ me like the rest of my species, or command me to swim back to the place whence I came: that the first of these expedients was utterly rejected by all the Houyhnhnms who had ever seen me at his house or their own; for they alleged, that because I had some rudiments of reason, added to the natural pravity of those animals, it was to be feared I might be able to seduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the country, and bring them in troops by night to destroy the Houyhnhnms’ cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averse from labour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)