Wheedle vs Entrap - What's the difference?
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To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
* 1977 , ("The Wife of Bath's Tale"), Penguin Classics, p. 290:
To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.
* Congreve
To catch something in a trap or snare.
To lure someone, either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.
Wheedle is a related term of entrap.
As verbs the difference between wheedle and entrap
is that wheedle is to cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery while entrap is to catch something in a trap or snare.wheedle
English
Verb
and (intransitive)- Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.
- I'd like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.
- A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her.
