Beguile
[bɪ'gaɪl] or [bɪ'ɡaɪl]
Definition
(v. t.) To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
(v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.
(v. t.) To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Delude, cheat, deceive, BEFOOL.[2]. Divert, amuse, entertain, cheer, solace.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BEFOOL]
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Definition
v.t. to cheat or deceive: to divert attention from anything tedious or painful: to divert or amuse: to wile any one into some course.—ns. Beguile′ment; Beguil′er.—adv. Beguil′ingly.
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Examples
- But there was no harm in his way of saying this: it was said laughingly, and to beguile the time. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The rosy hours were thus beguiled until it was time for Bella to have Pa's escort back. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The clerks had not arrived yet, and he beguiled the time by looking out of the staircase window. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She was an angel beguiled. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Phineas seemed, on the whole, the briskest of the company, and beguiled his long drive with whistling certain very unquaker-like songs, as he went on. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The women (excepting Penelope) beguiled the time by talking of Rosanna's suicide. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Cruncher beguiled the earlier watches of the night with solitary pipes, and did not start upon his excursion until nearly one o'clock. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A dense justice in a corner is beguiled into a wink. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They talked of many subjects (his partner never had had such a ready store to draw upon for the beguiling of the time), and so to bed, and to sleep. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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