seduce
verb (used with object)
to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
was seducing
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past progressiveof seduce.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The idea was plausible, it was seducing, it was amiable; and held forth the prospect of general improvement of morals from the enlarged culture of mind.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various
Evidently he was striving to subdue the exhortations of a desire which was seducing him into signing an untruthful statement.
