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Another word for allure

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Verb

  1. To direct or impel to oneself by some quality or action

      1. To apply force to (something) so as to cause or tend to cause motion toward the source of the force:
      2. To remove from a fixed position; extract:
      3. To tug at; jerk or tweak:
      1. To grasp or grip:
      2. To capture physically; seize:
      3. To seize with authority or legal right:
      1. To make magnetic.
      2. To attract, charm, or influence:
      1. Something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward:
      2. An attraction or appeal:
      3. A decoy used in catching animals, especially an artificial bait used in catching fish.
      1. To attract (someone), usually to do something, by arousing hope, interest, or desire:
      1. To cause to move after or toward one by applying continuous force; drag:
      2. To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading:
      3. To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something:
      1. To cause to draw near or adhere by physical force:
      2. To arouse or compel the interest, admiration, or attention of:
      3. To possess or use the power of attraction.
      1. An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.
      2. A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision:
      3. A higher court's review of the correctness of a decision by a lower court.
    See also:

    like

  2. To beguile or draw into a wrong or foolish course of action

      1. To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward.
      2. To be inviting or attractive to:
      3. To provoke or to risk provoking:
      1. To attract or lead (someone) away from proper behavior or thinking:
      2. To induce (someone) to engage in sexual activity, as by flirting or persuasion.
      3. To entice into a different state or position:
      1. Something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward:
      2. An attraction or appeal:
      3. A decoy used in catching animals, especially an artificial bait used in catching fish.
      1. To win over by coaxing, flattery, or artful talk:
      2. To obtain by cajolery:
      1. To attract (someone), usually to do something, by arousing hope, interest, or desire:
    Idioms:
    See also:

    persuasion

Noun

  1. The power or quality of attracting

    See also:

    like

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Another word for allure

Noun
      1. The capability of eliciting intense interest or of being very attractive.
      2. The state of being intensely interested or attracted:
      3. An intensely interesting, attractive quality or trait.
      1. Something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward:
      2. An attraction or appeal:
      3. A decoy used in catching animals, especially an artificial bait used in catching fish.
      1. The power or quality of pleasing or delighting; appeal:
      2. A quality that pleases or attracts; a delightful characteristic:
      3. A small ornament, such as one worn on a bracelet.
      1. The act or capability of attracting.
      2. The quality of attracting; charm.
      3. A feature or characteristic that attracts.
    See also:

    attraction

    appeal

Verb
      1. Something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward:
      2. An attraction or appeal:
      3. A decoy used in catching animals, especially an artificial bait used in catching fish.
      1. A secret or underhand scheme; a plot.
      2. The practice of or involvement in such schemes:
      3. A clandestine love affair.
      1. To attract (someone), usually to do something, by arousing hope, interest, or desire:
      1. To cause to draw near or adhere by physical force:
      2. To arouse or compel the interest, admiration, or attention of:
      3. To possess or use the power of attraction.
    See also:

    attract

    See syn. study at

    fascinate

    attract

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Sentence Examples

  • My Betsy is fine looking woman, beautiful in my mind and in the eyes of most, but even I have to admit she lacks the room-stopping allure of Martha LeBlanc.

  • Signs were hung out on all sides to allure him; some to catch him by the appetite, as the tavern and victualling cellar; some by the fancy, as the dry goods store and the jeweller's; and others by the hair or the feet or the skirts, as the barber, the shoemaker, or the tailor.

  • She was a bride of only seventeen and was related to the royal house; yet, as his Catholic biographer put it, "by sorcery and witchcraft he did so allure that poor gentlewoman that she could not live without him."

  • He takes no heed of his rider, pays no attention whether he be on his back or not, walks straight on when once set agoing, merely because he is too stupid to turn aside, and then should some tempting thorn or green branch allure him out of the path, continues to walk on in the new direction simply because he is too dull to turn back into the right road.

  • To allure and attract them to visit the flower the odoriferous secretions and gay colours are developed, and the position and complicated structure of the parts of the flower are adapted to the perfect performance of the process, It is comparatively rare in hermaphrodite flowers for self-fertilization to occur, and the various forms of dichogamy, dimorphism and trimorphism are fitted to prevent this.

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