Meaning of beguile in English
(Definition of beguile from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of beguile from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of beguile
beguile
His long, far-ranging sentences beguile with surprises and the sheer beauty of craftsmanship.
From Huffington Post
That it's a bit fuzzy about how and why this energy beguiles and possesses photographers in the first place shouldn't reduce its appeal.
From OregonLive.com
You don't have to be a gifted linguist to be beguiled by the quirks and character of another language.
From The Seattle Times
Viewers whom the film had beguiled as children watched it with their kids and on and on through the decades.
From TIME
Computing machines beguile us because we have the dominion to program them.
From The Verge
It was the prurient lure of nutmeg that beguiled them.
From The New Yorker
Far from a conventional movie siren, she makes an enormous effort to beguile.
From TIME
But snow beguiled him most of all.
From Washington Post
He, too, beguiles and blusters and buttonholes.
From The Atlantic
A leader so beguiled by his own lies that he starts to believe them is profoundly dangerous to the stability of the country and, given our reach, the globe.
From Slate Magazine
The criminal and outlaw always beguiled her.
From Slate Magazine
It's as if directors were inside our sleeping brains, fiddling with the machinery like clockmaker-elves, tapping our unconscious to mine images that beguile, terrify and astound us.
From TIME
Again and again the telescope had beguiled its untrained users with mirages and deceptions.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Bipolar disorder has beguiled clinicians and researchers for many years now, and probably many more to come.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
When the dust settles, both sides will likely concede that the question is a beguiling one indeed.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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aklını çelmek, kandırmak, eğlendirmek…
séduire, captiver, s’occuper…
bekoren, verdrijven…
okouzlit, krátit si (čas)…
lokke, fordrive…
menyenangkan, mengisi waktu…
ทำให้เพลิดเพลิน, ฆ่าเวลาอย่างเพลิดเพลิน…
lôi cuốn, làm tiêu khiển…
zwodzić, mamić, oczarować…
roa, tjusa, roa sig med…
menghiburkan, mengisi masa lapang…
betören, sich die Zeit vertreiben…
lokke, forlede, fordrive tida for…
забавляти, розважати, коротати час…
обманывать…
