MEANING
To entice or persuade someone by charm, flattery, or deception, often into doing something.
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Words that belong together
- inveigle someone into a scheme
- inveigle a guest into staying
On the page
She inveigled him into attending by leaving the real purpose unnamed.
He tried to inveigle the guard into conversation while the others waited.
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Word forms
- Base
- inveigle
- Past tense
- inveigled
- Past participle
- inveigled
- Present participle
- inveigling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- inveigle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are inveigling
- Present perfect
- have/has inveigled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been inveigling
- Past
- inveigled
- Past continuous
- was/were inveigling
- Past perfect
- had inveigled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been inveigling
- Future
- will inveigle
- Future continuous
- will be inveigling
- Future perfect
- will have inveigled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been inveigling
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: inveigle; inveigles; inveigled; inveigled; inveigling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: inveigles.
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