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# wheedle

«wheedle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to coax someone, with soft words or flattery, into doing…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (wheedles, wheedled, wheedling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To wheedle is to coax someone, with soft words or flattery, into doing what you want. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedle/#m1)

2) To wheedle a secret out of someone is to get it from them by sweet talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a wife wheedles and flatters her husband to get her way

### examples

- His wife wheedled him until he agreed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedle/#x1)
- She wheedled a treat out of her dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedle/#x2)
- Don't wheedle; just ask me nicely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wheedle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheedle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.