into doing sth(
1 to attract sb or make sb want to do or have sth, even if they know it is wrong:
[VN] I was tempted by the dessert menu. * Don't tempt thieves by leaving valuables clearly visible. * [VNtoinf] I was tempted to take the day off.
2 to persuade or try to persuade sb to do sth that you want them to do, for example by offering them sth:
[VN] How can we tempt young people into engineering? * [VNtoinf] Nothing would tempt me to live here.
IDIOMS
tempt fate / providence to do sth too confidently in a way that might mean that your good luck will come to an end:
She felt it would be tempting fate to try the difficult climb a second time.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tempt is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does tempt appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — tempt appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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