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{
"term": "tempt",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "tempt",
"heSheIt": "tempts"
},
"pastSimple": "tempted",
"pastParticiple": "tempted",
"ingForm": "tempting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to attract somebody or make somebody want to do or have something, even if they know it is wrong",
"sensetop": "tempt somebodytempt somebody into (doing) somethingtempt somebody to do something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I was tempted by the dessert menu.",
"contextForm": "tempt somebody"
},
{
"text": "Don't tempt thieves by leaving valuables clearly visible."
},
{
"text": "He was tempted into a life of crime.",
"contextForm": "tempt somebody into (doing) something"
},
{
"text": "I was tempted to take the day off.",
"contextForm": "tempt somebody to do something"
},
{
"text": "Did you ever feel tempted to cheat?"
},
{
"text": "I was almost tempted to strip off and plunge straight into the pool."
},
{
"text": "She was sorely tempted to tell him what she really thought."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verb + tempt": ["could", "may", "might"],
"preposition": ["into", "with"],
"phrases": ["be almost tempted", "be half tempted", "be tempted"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to persuade or try to persuade somebody to do something that you want them to do, for example by offering them something",
"sensetop": "tempt somebody (into something/into doing something)tempt somebody to do something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "How can we tempt young people into engineering?",
"contextForm": "tempt somebody (into something/into doing something)"
},
{
"text": "Nothing would tempt me to live here.",
"contextForm": "tempt somebody to do something"
}
],
"topics": ["Discussion and agreement"],
"collocations": {
"verb + tempt": ["could", "may", "might"],
"preposition": ["into", "with"],
"phrases": ["be almost tempted", "be half tempted", "be tempted"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to do something too confidently in a way that might mean that your good luck will come to an end",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She felt it would be tempting fate to try the difficult climb a second time."
},
{
"text": "It would be tempting fate to say that we will definitely win the game."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/tempt/",
"audio": "te/tempt/tempt__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/tempts/",
"audio": "te/tempt/tempts__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtemptɪd/",
"audio": "te/tempt/tempted__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtemptɪŋ/",
"audio": "te/tempt/tempting__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/tempt/",
"audio": "te/tempt/tempt__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/tempts/",
"audio": "te/tempt/tempts__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtemptɪd/",
"audio": "te/tempt/tempted__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtemptɪŋ/",
"audio": "te/tempt/tempting__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French tempter ‘to test’, from Latin temptare ‘handle, test, try’."
}