transitive verb

• 1Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.

  ‘every prominent American artist has been beguiled by Maine’

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  • ‘a beguiling smile’

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  charming, attractive, appealing, pleasing, pleasant, lovely, delightful, enchanting, entrancing, charismatic, captivating, bewitching, spellbinding, hypnotizing, mesmerizing, magnetic, alluring, enticing, tempting, inviting, seductive, irresistible

  charm, attract, enchant, entrance, win over, woo, captivate, bewitch, spellbind, dazzle, blind, hypnotize, mesmerize, seduce, tempt, lead on, lure, entice, ensnare, entrap

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  1. 1.1Trick (someone) into doing something.
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     • ‘they were beguiled into signing a peace treaty’
     Synonyms

     deceive, delude, hoodwink, mislead, take in, dupe, fool, double-cross, cheat, defraud, swindle, outwit, outmanoeuvre, catch out, gull, hoax, bamboozle, beguile

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• 2literary Help (time) pass pleasantly.

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  • ‘to beguile some of the time they went to the movie theater’

  Synonyms

  entertain, amuse, delight, please, occupy, absorb, engage, distract, divert, interest, fascinate, enthral, engross, preoccupy, hold the attention of

  while away, pass, spend, use up, take up

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