Meaning of ademeni | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to lure, entice (by deceit or otherwise)
   transitive
2. to attract, invite, appeal to someone
   broadly, transitive
3. to seduce
   euphemistic, transitive
4. to deceive
   transitive, uncommon
5. to be mistaken
   obsolete, reflexive
6. to let oneself be fooled
   obsolete, reflexive
7. to wonder
   obsolete, rare, reflexive

Equivalents

Examples

“Toate măsuțele erau ocupate, am fost nevoit să mă cocoț pe un scaun din fața barului, poziție care nu m-a ademenit niciodată[…]”

All the tables were occupied, I had to climb onto a chair in front of the bar, a position which never appealed to me […]

“Acum, în postura de candidat la prezidențiale, încearcă să-și ademenească electoratul în stilul său caracteristic.”

Now, in the position of a presidential candidate, he is trying to attract his voter base in his characteristic style.

“Don Juan ademenise femei și svârlise banii în petreceri dar făcuse aceasta din iubirea de femei, de oameni.”

Don Juan had seduced women and squandered the money on parties, but he had done that out of love for women, for people.

“Кі̆ар ка Ева че се адемені де діаволᲈл, сᲈп форма шерпелᲈі̆, фемеіле пънъ астъзі̆ сънт адеменіте де Аморᲈл че, ка ᲈн Протеᲈ̆ лі се ꙟнфъцошеазъ сᲈп форме ꙟнмііте:[…]”

Just like Eve who was deceived by the Devil in the shape of a snake, women are, even today, deceived by Cupid who, like a Proteus, presents himself to them under manifold forms: […]

“Și astfel e de neghioabă gloata gurelor căscate că se ademenesc a crede la eroismul acelor ciocli, și la existența unor fapte care n’au existat și nici se vor găsi în istorie, precum și la desmormĕntarea țării noastre care—slavă domnului—nu murise niciodată.”

And so moronic is the crowd of gaping mouths that they kid themselves into believing the heroism of those undertakers, and the existence of deeds which neither existed nor will they be found in history, as well as the disinterment of our country which—thank God—never did die.

“Ei nu trebuia sĕ se ademenească de nisce promisiuni ministeriale de valoarea unor bomboane, cu care sĕ îmbunează inima copiilor.”

They shouldn’t have let themselves be fooled by some ministerial promises equal in worth to bonbons with which the hearts of children are soothed.

CEFR level