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v. To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward.

v. To be inviting or attractive to: A second helping tempted me. We refused the offer even though it tempted us. See Synonyms at lure.

v. To provoke or to risk provoking: Don't tempt fate.

v. To cause to be strongly disposed: He was tempted to walk out.

verb-intransitive. To be attractive or inviting: a meal that tempts.

v. To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.

v. To attract; to allure.

v. To provoke something; to court.

v. To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

v. To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.

v. To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.

v. To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.

To put to trial; try; test; put to the test.

To entice; attract; allure; invite; induce; incline; dispose; incite.

To incite or entice to evil; entice to something wrong by presenting arguments that are plausible or convincing, or by the offer of some pleasure or apparent advantage as the inducement; seduce.

To provoke; defy; act presumptuously toward.

To attempt; endeavor to do, accomplish, or reach; venture on.

Synonyms and To lure, inveigle, decoy, bait, bribe.

n. An attempt.

v. give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting

v. dispose or incline or entice to

v. induce into action by using one's charm

v. try presumptuously

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

v. try to seduce

"16 Disappointment might urge the flatterer to secret revenge; and the first glance of favor might again tempt him to suspend and suppress a libel, 17 in which the Roman Cyrus is degraded into an odious and contemptible tyrant, in which both the emperor and his consort Theodora are seriously represented as two daemons, who had assumed a human form for the destruction of mankind."

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tempter    temptation    tempt providence    temptress    tempt fate   

entice    decoy    allure    attract    seduce    induce    invite    incite    provoke    instigate   

attempt    contempt    exempt    unkempt   

alluring    attractive    delicious    tasty    fascinate    desirable    abundant    appetizing    compel    sexy