Synonyms of the word tempt


TEMPTALLURE - AROUSE - BID - CHARM - ENTICE - EXCITE - INFLUENCE - INVITE - LURE - PERSUADE - PROVOKE - SEX - SHAKE - STIMULATE - STIR

tempt

  • v. (transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
  • v. (transitive) To attract; to allure.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke something; to court.

allure

  • n. The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
  • n. gait; bearing.
  • v. (transitive) To entice; to attract.

arouse

  • v. To stimulate feelings.
  • v. To sexually stimulate.
  • v. To wake from sleep or stupor.

bid

  • v. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
  • v. (transitive) To invite; to summon; to pray for; to offer.
  • v. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
  • v. (transitive) To offer as a price.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an attempt.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
  • v. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
  • n. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
  • n. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
  • n. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

charm

  • n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
  • n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
  • n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks.
  • n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
  • v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural…
  • v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
  • v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
  • n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
  • n. A flock, group (especially of finches).

entice

  • v. (transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

excite

  • v. (transitive) To stir the emotions of.
  • v. (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
  • v. (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron…
  • v. To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

influence

  • n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development…
  • n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
  • n. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
  • n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the…
  • n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
  • n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
  • v. (transitive) To have an affect on using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify,…
  • v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

invite

  • v. (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
  • v. (transitive) To request formally.
  • v. (transitive) To encourage.
  • v. (transitive) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
  • n. (informal) An invitation.

lure

  • n. Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
  • n. (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
  • n. A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
  • n. A velvet smoothing brush.
  • v. To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
  • v. To recall a hawk with a lure.

persuade

  • v. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through…
  • v. (transitive, now rare, dialectal) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection,…

provoke

  • v. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
  • v. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
  • v. (obsolete) To appeal.

sex

  • n. (countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive…
  • n. (countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.
  • n. (countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.
  • n. (uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.
  • n. (obsolete or literary, uncountable, with "the") Women; the human female sex and those who belong to it.
  • n. (uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.
  • n. (countable, euphemistic or slang) Genitalia: a penis or vagina.
  • v. (zoology, transitive) To determine the sex of an animal.
  • v. (chiefly US, colloquial, intransitive) To have sex with.
  • n. (obsolete) Alternative form of sect.

shake

  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
  • v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
  • v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
  • v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
  • v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
  • v. (intransitive) To dance.
  • v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
  • n. The act of shaking something.
  • n. A milkshake.
  • n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
  • n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  • n. (building material) A thin shingle.
  • n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
  • n. A fissure in rock or earth.
  • n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
  • n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
  • n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
  • n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
  • n. A shook of staves and headings.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

stimulate

  • v. To encourage into action.
  • v. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

stir

  • v. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something…
  • v. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
  • v. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
  • v. (transitive) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
  • v. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
  • v. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
  • n. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
  • n. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
  • n. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
  • n. (slang) Jail; prison.

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