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–verb (used with object)

1.	to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.

2.	to attract, appeal strongly to, or invite: The offer tempts me.

3.	to render strongly disposed to do something: The book tempted me to read more on the subject.

4.	to put (someone) to the test in a venturesome way; provoke: to tempt one's fate.

5.	Obsolete. to try or test.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME < L temptāre to probe, feel, test, tempt

]

—Related forms

tempt·a·ble, adjective

—Synonyms 1. Tempt, seduce may both mean to allure or entice to something unwise or wicked. To tempt is to attract by holding out the probability of gratification or advantage, often in the direction of that which is wrong or unwise: to tempt a man with a bribe. To seduce is literally to lead astray, sometimes from that which absorbs one or demands attention, but oftener, in a moral sense, from rectitude, chastity, etc.: to seduce a person away from loyalty. 2. inveigle, induce, lure, incite, persuade.

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tempt Audio Help   (těmpt) Pronunciation Key
v.   tempt·ed, tempt·ing, tempts

v.   tr.

To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward.
To be inviting or attractive to: A second helping tempted me. We refused the offer even though it tempted us. See Synonyms at lure.
To provoke or to risk provoking: Don't tempt fate.
To cause to be strongly disposed: He was tempted to walk out.

v. intr.
To be attractive or inviting: a meal that tempts.

[Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter, from Latin temptāre, to feel, try.]

tempt'a·ble adj., tempt'er n.

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tempt

c.1225, from O.Fr. tempter (12c.), from L. temptare "to feel, try out, attempt to influence, test." Tempting in the sense of "inviting" is from 1596; temptress is from 1594.

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tempt
verb
1.	dispose or incline or entice to; "We were tempted by the delicious-looking food"
2.	provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation" [syn: entice]
3.	give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; "the window displays tempted the shoppers"
4.	induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money" [syn: charm]
5.	try to seduce
6.	try presumptuously; "St. Anthony was tempted in the desert"

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tempt [tempt] verb

to (try to) persuade or attract to do something; to make (someone) want to do (something)
Example: The sunshine tempted them (to go) out.

Arabic:	يُغْري، يُقْنِع، يَجْذِب
Chinese (Simplified):	诱导，诱惑
Chinese (Traditional):	誘導，誘惑
Czech:	vábit
Danish:	friste
Dutch:	verleiden
Estonian:	ahvatlema
Finnish:	houkutella
French:	tenter
German:	verlocken
Greek:	βάζω σε πειρασμό, παρασύρω
Hungarian:	csábít
Icelandic:	freista
Indonesian:	menggoda
Italian:	tentare

Japanese:	～する気にさせる
Korean:	유혹하다; 충동질하다
Latvian:	vilināt; kārdināt
Lithuanian:	gundyti, vilioti
Norwegian:	friste, lokke
Polish:	kusić
Portuguese (Brazil):	tentar
Portuguese (Portugal):	tentar
Romanian:	a tenta
Russian:	соблазнять;прельщать
Slovak:	vábiť, navádzať, pokúšať
Slovenian:	mamiti
Spanish:	tentar
Swedish:	fresta, locka
Turkish:	aklını çelmek, ayartmak, baştan çıkarmak

See also: be tempted (to do something), tempter, tempting, temptation

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Tempt

At*tempt"\ (?; 215), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Attempting.] [OF. atenter, also spelt atempter, F. attenter, fr. L. attentare to attempt; ad + tentare, temptare, to touch, try, v. intens. of tendere to stretch. See Tempt, and cf. Attend.]

1. To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. --Longfellow.

2. To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt. [Obs. or Archaic]

It made the laughter of an afternoon That Vivien should attempt the blameless king. --Thackeray.

3. To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman.

Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute. --Shak.

4. To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.

Without attempting his adversary's life. --Motley.

Syn: See Try.

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