inveigle
Meaning of inveigle
verb
- persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery.
we cannot inveigle him into putting pen to paper
late 15th century (in the sense ‘beguile, deceive’; formerly also as enveigle ): from Anglo-Norman French envegler, alteration of Old French aveugler ‘to blind’, from aveugle ‘blind’.
Information about inveigle
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of inveigle is: inveigles.
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Hyphenation of inveigle
in-vei-gle
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- inveigle is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
inveigle synonyms
Meaning wheedle:
wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax
Meaning induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument:
Meaning persuade (someone) to do something:
Meaning speak in order to give information or express ideas or feelings; converse or communicate by spoken words:
Meaning entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise:
Meaning tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward:
Meaning powerfully attract or charm; tempt:
Meaning attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage:
Meaning catch in or as in a trap:
Meaning entice (someone) to do or believe something inadvisable or foolhardy:
Meaning lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests:
Meaning charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way:
Meaning deceive; trick:
Meaning trick or deceive (someone); dupe:
Meaning persuade (someone) to do or believe something by lying to them:
Meaning cheat or fool:
Meaning fool or trick (someone):
Meaning coax (someone) with kind words or flattery:
Translation of inveigle
Words that rhyme with inveigle
Daigle, paigle, taigle, wallydraigle, Weigle, enveigle, veigle, Gigle, espigle, porwigle
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