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wiled Definition


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wile
noun
    1. Charming personal ways.
      Thesaurus: trickery, artifice, craftiness, guile, cunning, slyness; Antonym: guilelessness.
      Form: wiles
    2. A piece of cunning or trickery; a ruse, manoeuvre or stratagem.
      Thesaurus: ruse, lure, device, ploy, subterfuge, contrivance, stratagem.
verb
    wiled, wiling
    1. To lure or entice them.
      Form: wile someone away (usually)
      Form: wile someone into something
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon wil.

Phrasal Verb: wile away something
    To pass (time) pleasantly; to while away (time).


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