1. entice (someone) into sexual activity: "a lawyer had seduced a female client"Similarpersuade someone to have sextake away someone's innocencelead astraycorruptdepraveinformal:bedpop someone's cherrytumbleeuphemistic:have one's (wicked) way withtake advantage ofliterary:ravishdeflowerarchaic:dishonourruin
▪ attract powerfully:"the melody seduces the ear with warm string tones"
Word Originlate 15th century (originally in the sense ‘persuade (someone) to abandon their duty’): from Latin seducere, from se- ‘away, apart’ + ducere ‘to lead’.