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Meanings of seduction in English

Portuguese
conquista
Catalan
conquesta
Spanish
conquista

An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone.

conquista
Usage of seduction in English
1
An attempted seduction takes the form of insistent verbal demands: 'Say heat.
The Guardian
2
Their pursuit of intimacy is often one part reason, nine parts seduction.
The Disposable Male
3
The business and the glory of men is the seduction of women.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
4
The gravest example is to be found in certain cases of seduction.
Progressive Morality: An Essay in Ethics
5
She did not have much confidence in her own powers of seduction.
The viscount and the virgin
6
No, it's more than a date, it's a seduction ploy, Sophie said.
She, myself & i
7
Dress up in that lacy black thing-youare seduction itself in it.'
Possessed
8
I got it, the seduction and tender mercy embodied in those words.
The king of lies
9
It is for this reason that males initiate the path to seduction.
The Disposable Male
10
Yes, but it is not seduction as Jean-Claude and Asher can do.
Incubus Dreams
11
In Camila's case the seduction had happened during a White House dinner.
Seveneves
12
He thought of himself as a connoisseur of the art of seduction.
The accident man
13
Vodka faithfully attended every human activity: seduction, matrimony, celebration and, definitely, murder.
Three stations: an arkady renko novel
14
Custo shook his head clear, the mermaid's seduction receding with the water.
Shadow fall
15
I can't play the seduction card- Idon'thave the look for it.
Exit strategy
16
Buttitch spends the next half hour teaching me the secrets of seduction.
The Hunger Pains
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Translations for seduction
Spanish
conquista
Seduction through the time
Seduction across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common