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INVEIGLE
Definition of INVEIGLE
verb
To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.
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Other senses
INVEIGLE carries 4 further meanings.
transitive verb
To win over by coaxing, flattery, or artful talk.
“He inveigled a friend into becoming his tennis partner.”
transitive verb
To obtain by cajolery.
“inveigled a free pass to the museum.”
To lead astray by making blind to the truth or to consequences; mislead by deception; entice into violation of duty, propriety, or self-interest: now usually with into.
Synonyms To cajole, beguile, lure, insnare, decoy.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman enveugler, alteration of aveugler (“to blind, to delude”), from Old French avogle (“without eyes”), from Late Latin ab oculīs (“without eyes”, literally “away from the eyes”). The in- might be by analogy to variation between a- and en- in other French words, which was then latinised into in-. For the pronunciation with /iː/, compare the development of people; that with /eɪ/ is presumably a spelling pronunciation.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- Anglo-Norman
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, INVEIGLE · 2 relatives in the game
INVEIGLE in a sentence
“Again and again, by feint of foot and hand and body he continued to inveigle Sandel into leaping back, ducking, or countering.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
INVEIGLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 180 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
INVEIGLE starts with I and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEGIILNV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and E appear more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of INVEIGLE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start INVEIG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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