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Meanings of beguile in English

Portuguese
encantar
Catalan
encantar

To attract, arouse and hold attention and interest, as by charm or beauty.

encantar

Influence by slyness.

Synonyms
Examples for "juggle"
Examples for "juggle"
1
Parents were often distracted or trying to juggle work with home schooling.
The Irish Times
2
Do you find it difficult to juggle several work projects at once?
The Irish Times
3
That's the basic move you're going to need to juggle three balls.
Wired
4
Yesterday he was talking about trying to juggle club and country commitments.
The Irish Times
5
The priest told him that he must juggle for the Blessed Virgin.
Joe Burke's Last Stand
1
He has not risen early enough in the morning to hoodwink me.
Serge Panine — Volume 01
2
Try to hoodwink you into thinking they have no truss to sell.
Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
3
I need his evidence to hoodwink this old cask of grog, Abercromby.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
4
Also, I am a man whom he could easily hoodwink and outwit.
Dead Souls
5
Now you hoodwink Cicereau's security chief, who is apparently a blood addict.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
Usage of beguile in English
1
And with many other pleasant tales did they beguile the hours away.
The Story of Siegfried
2
There was at first little in the situation to beguile her spirits.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
3
In these tones did the magician, bawling for old lamps, beguile Aladdin.
There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
4
I procured some books and music, to beguile the tedious solitary days.
Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman
5
Occasionally a male bird sets himself to beguile the time with song.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
6
He says I must beguile you to be less formal with us.
His Grace of Osmonde / Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Lif...
7
Having no fellow pupil to beguile me, I was the more industrious.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
8
I am very glad I can help to beguile them for you.
Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
9
If not, there are books yonder with which to beguile the time.
The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week
10
As they rode back they conversed about lions, to beguile the time.
The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
11
It will not take much room, and may beguile a weary hour.
The Children of the New Forest
12
You even try to beguile your misery with pleasant recollections of Shakespeare.
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
13
No party had been alluring enough to beguile her from her books.
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School / The Merry Doings of ...
14
It may not always comfort him, but never ceases to beguile him.
The new yorker
15
This I say lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
The first New Testament printed in English
16
Moreover, did you not lay it upon me to beguile the dolt?
Judith, a Play in Three Acts; Founded on the Apocryphal Book of ...
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Beguile through the time
Beguile across language varieties
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