Thesaurus / beguile
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Elicited by sunlight at dusk or dawn, and juxtaposed with more emphatic hues, shades of pink can beguile and tantalize.
IN THE GALLERIES: BUILDING ON AN ARTWORK EXPRESSED VIA DIFFERENT MEDIAMARK JENKINSAPRIL 23, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAt night, I sat a long time on the deck, listening to the sea songs with which the crew beguile the evening watch.
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO BRAZILMARIA GRAHAMAll day long I sully sheet after sheet of paper and beguile the tedious hours with the half-faded recollections of my childhood.
MARGUERITEANATOLE FRANCESeeing her come back to life I gave her more flowers and sang to her, endeavouring to beguile her.
MARGUERITEANATOLE FRANCEHe replied, "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels."
FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRSJOHN FOXEBeside the provisions lay the flute, whose notes had lately been called forth by the lonely watcher to beguile a tedious hour.
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWDTHOMAS HARDYThe Circassians also beguile the way on their journeys with riding songs.
LIFE OF SCHAMYLJOHN MILTON MACKIENo party had been alluring enough to beguile her from her books.
GRACE HARLOWE'S PLEBE YEAR AT HIGH SCHOOLJESSIE GRAHAM FLOWERZeus reflects on his promise, and sends a false Dream to beguile Agamemnon, promising that now he shall take Troy.
HOMER AND HIS AGEANDREW LANGAnd the weary hunters beguile the long silence of a desert night with the mirth and wonders of a tale.
THE SCIENCE OF FAIRY TALESEDWIN SIDNEY HARTLANDWORDS RELATED TO BEGUILE
- allure
- attract
- bedevil
- beguile
- captivate
- capture
- control
- dazzle
- draw
- enchant
- enrapture
- enthrall
- entrance
- fascinate
- hex
- hypnotize
- knock dead
- knock out
- put horns on
- put the whammy on
- put under magic spell
- send
- slay
- spell
- spellbind
- sweep off one's feet
- take
- tickle
- tickle pink
- tickle to death
- trick
- turn on
- vamp
- voodoo
- wile
- wow
- apple-polish
- argue into
- banter
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- blandish
- bootlick
- brown-nose
- butter up
- con
- deceive
- delude
- dupe
- entice
- entrap
- get around
- get next to
- hand a line
- induce
- influence
- inveigle
- jolly
- lay it on thick
- lure
- make up to
- maneuver
- mislead
- oil
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- push
- rub the right way
- seduce
- snow
- soap
- soft-soap
- soften
- spread it on
- stroke
- suck up to
- sweet-talk
- sweeten up
- tantalize
- tempt
- urge
- wheedle
- work on
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- allures
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- hooks
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- makes a hit with
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- takes
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- hypnotize
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- send
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- spell
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- transport
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- voodoo
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- wow
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- enraptures
- ensorcells
- enthralls
- entrances
- fascinates
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- hexes
- hypnotizes
- inveigles
- kills
- knocks dead
- knocks out
- magnetizes
- mesmerizes
- pleases
- possesses
- puts under a spell
- sends
- slays
- spells
- sweeps off feet
- takes
- tickles
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- transports
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- vamps
- voodoos
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- wins
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- beguile
- bilk
- bleed
- bunco
- burn
- caboodle
- chisel
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- cross
- deceive
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- diddle
- do
- do a number on
- double-cross
- double-deal
- dupe
- fast talk
- finagle
- fleece
- flimflam
- fudge
- give bum steer
- gouge
- gyp
- hoodwink
- hose
- jerk around
- milk
- mislead
- pull one's leg
- ream
- rip off
- rook
- rope in
- sandbag
- scam
- screw
- shaft
- short
- shuck
- skin
- snow
- stiff
- sucker
- swindle
- take
- take for a ride
- take in
- take out
- trick
- trim
- two-time
- victimize
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