wile
To entice or lureTo entice or lure.
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» She is a woman of many wiles.
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1 sensesTo entice or lure.
Examples
7 sentencesShe is a woman of many wiles.
He is a man of many wiles.
She used her feminine wiles to seduce him.
ruОна применила свои женские хитрости, чтобы соблазнить его. — soweli_Elepanto
The rustic youth was as yet ignorant of the wiles of love.
Mary used her feminine wiles to hoodwink Tom into revealing state secrets.
Origin
From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English wīFrom Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English wīl (“wile, trick”) and wiġle (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle. Doublet of guile.
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Forms
wiles, wiling, wiled, wiledWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.