Wile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A stratagem or trick intended to deceive or ensnare.
  • n. A disarming or seductive manner, device, or procedure: the wiles of a skilled negotiator.
  • n. Trickery; cunning.
  • v. To influence or lead by means of wiles; entice.
  • v. To pass (time) agreeably: wile away a Sunday afternoon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
  • v. To entice or lure
  • v. Alternative spelling of while, "to pass the time".
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
  • v. To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
  • v. To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A trick or stratagem; anything practised for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice.
  • n. Synonyms Manœuver, Stratagem, etc. See artifice.
  • To deceive; beguile; impose on.
  • To lure; entice; inveigle; coax; cajole.
  • To shorten or cause to pass easily or pleasantly, as by some diverting wile: in this sense probably confused with while.
  • n. A Middle English form of while.
  • n. Same as wild, Weald (?).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  • Verb Form
    wiled    wiles    wiling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Hyponym
    fraudulence    put-on    jugglery    hoax    humbug    dupery    fraud   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    artifice    beguilement    allurement    deceive    beguile    allure    pass    deception    entice   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Argyll    Kyle    Marseille    Mikhail    Niall    Nile    Pyle    Theil    Weil    Weill   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ruse    subterfuge    guile    wiles    blandishment    artifice    stratagem    trickery    artfulness    craftiness