Definition of "tempt" []

• To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward. (verb-transitive)
• To be inviting or attractive to: A second helping tempted me. We refused the offer even though it tempted us. See Synonyms at lure. (verb-transitive)
• To provoke or to risk provoking: Don't tempt fate. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to be strongly disposed: He was tempted to walk out. (verb-transitive)
• To be attractive or inviting: a meal that tempts. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "16 Disappointment might urge the flatterer to secret revenge; and the first glance of favor might again tempt him to suspend and suppress a libel, 17 in which the Roman Cyrus is degraded into an odious and contemptible tyrant, in which both the emperor and his consort Theodora are seriously represented as two daemons, who had assumed a human form for the destruction of mankind."
• "Delays in product recalls tempt tragedyThe Los Angeles Times Mega Brands agreed to pay a civil penalty of $1.1 million last week in connection with a defective toy that caused the death of a toddler."
• "These labels tempt children with free gifts and seduce them to be loyal consumers of a particular product."