Definitions for tempt

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IPA: /tɛmpt/

Tempt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in tempt (emptt).

Definitions for tempt

verb (used with object)

1. to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
2. to attract, appeal strongly to, or invite:
3. to render strongly disposed to do something:
4. to put (someone) to the test in a venturesome way; provoke:
5. Obsolete. to try or test.

Origin of tempt

1175-1225; Middle English Latin temptāre to probe, feel, test, tempt

Examples for tempt

And to tempt him there was this new mystery, this knowledge that he could not miss.

It was hard to dissemble still, to tempt him to say something that would madden me!

You can never know who can become a spy for the enemy if you have enough means to pressure him, to blackmail him, to tempt him.

He says certain books, and even scary Halloween horror movies, tempt people to the devil.

That would be to tempt God: means as well as results are his.

And now he just peeped in, to see if he could tempt me forth to play.

Small things about every day that tempt people, we wanted to find out what they were.

Fearful lest curiosity might tempt me to open it, I had never even looked at it in book-stores.

Hoping to tempt her back into writing, her agent suggested that she and her husband collaborate on a book in his genre.

Magnificent was the day, indeed, and sorely did La Malne tempt us to a halt.