beguile
bi gahyl
- v influence by slyness
- v attract; cause to be enamored
- So far, at least, he is sticking to the idea that aid, investment and negotiations will beguile the teetering North Korean regime into behaving like a responsible world citizen.
- He carried puzzles in his pocket to beguile them and wrote them letters to remind them that "we still remember each other, and feel a sort of shivery affection for each other.
- The blobs that beguile him are any "isomorphic polysurfaces," meaning shapes that are, well, blobs.