seduce
verb (used with object)
to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
is seducing
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present progressiveof seduce (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“May December” pivots on who is seducing or manipulating whom, which plays out through the final scene.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2023
When Nicholas is seducing her, she expresses clear disdain for hosts, which seems odd at first because she’s clearly quite familiar with the park.
From The Verge ● May 6, 2018
Orgon disbelieves that Tartuffe is seducing his wife, Elmire, and his blind faith is catastrophic.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2015
Returning to a character he has portrayed before, he is seducing audiences with his technical virtuosity, crunching on all those crisp consonants in Hare's talky script while wielding his wiry body like a conductor's baton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2015
Alexandre Dumas is seducing, fascinating, interesting, amusing, and informing....
From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
