seduce
verb (used with object)
to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
seduces
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present tense formof seduce (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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When Sue Nyathi sent her debut novel The Polygamist to publishers, "they thought there was no market for the book" about a married Zimbabwean man and the women he seduces, she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Over and over again, he seduces us with color, engages us with delectable subject matter, and then stuns us with his overwhelming pictorial intelligence and inventiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
"This is a collective success by the whole country that perfectly demonstrates Spain's enormous attractivity, because Spain is a country that seduces the world," he said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
But their testimony alone can’t expose the devil’s bargain of realpolitik, which seduces the unwary with the notion that making others suffer will benefit us.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
The beauty and the lady, whose love seduces so stern a man as Shūzen to soft ways, is not to neglect the guests.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
