Definitions For Tempt

verb

  • Induce into action by using one's charm
  • Provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
  • Try presumptuously
  • Dispose or incline or entice to
  • Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
  • Try to seduce
  • To cause (someone) to do or want to do something even though it may be wrong, bad, or unwise

Is Tempt a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
11

The word Tempt is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Tempt in a Sentence

  • That chocolate dessert sure tempts me, but I should stick with my diet
  • Refusing to lay in enough food for the long winter tempts the dangers of starvation

Synonyms for Tempt

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