different between seduce vs trepan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin s?d?c? (“to lead apart or astray”), from s?- (“aside, away, astray”) + d?c? (“to lead”); see duct. Compare adduce, conduce, deduce, etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??dju?s/
• (US, General American) IPA^(key): /s??d(j)u?s/

Verb

seduce (third-person singular simple present seduces, present participle seducing, simple past and past participle seduced)

1. (transitive) To beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray.
2. (transitive) To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship.
3. (by extension, transitive, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with.

4. (transitive) To win over or attract.

Synonyms

• (to lure away from duty): corrupt, lead astray, misguide, bribe
• (to induce a sexual relationship): debauch, forlead, pick up, vamp
• (to have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (to win over or attract): beguile, entrance, pull in; see also Thesaurus:allure

Related terms

• seduction
• seductive
• seducement
• seducer
• seductress

Translations

Further reading

• seduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• seduce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• deuces, educes

Italian

Verb

seduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of sedurre

Latin

Verb

s?d?ce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of s?d?c?

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin s?d?c?re, present active infinitive of s?d?c?, French séduire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [se?dut?e]

Verb

a seduce (third-person singular present seduce, past participle sedus) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive) to seduce

Conjugation

Derived terms

• seduc?tor
• seducere
• sedus

Spanish

Verb

seduce

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of seducir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of seducir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of seducir.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???pæn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: tre?pan

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

1. A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
2. (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.

Translations

Verb

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning or trepaning, simple past and past participle trepanned or trepaned)

1. (transitive, manufacturing, mining) To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
2. (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly from Old English treppan (“to trap”).

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

1. (archaic) A trickster.
2. (archaic) A snare; a trapan.

   • Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.

Translations

Verb

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning, simple past and past participle trepanned)

1. (archaic) To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
   • 1798 Charlotte Turner Smith: The Young Philosopher. Vol.4, Chapter 9. ...a postchaise, into which he had so infamously trepanned me...

Translations

Anagrams

• -pteran, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, panter, parent

Spanish

Verb

trepan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of trepar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of trepar.