vietellä — meaning in English

English meaning

• betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
• Mack noun (slang) Someone who is smooth and confident at flirting or picking up partners.
• mislead verb To cause someone to believe something untrue, whether on purpose or by accident.
• offend verb To hurt someone's feelings or upset them, often unintentionally.
• seduce verb To persuade someone to do something unwise or improper, often by charm or temptation.
• suborn verb To induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner.
• tease verb To poke fun at someone playfully or, sometimes, unkindly.
• tempt verb To try to get someone to do something, often something unwise, usually by making it look appealing.

Senses

vietellä is used for these senses in English:

• betray (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
• betray (transitive) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
• mack (slang) To seduce or flirt with.
• offend (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
• seduce (transitive) To beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray. [1520s]
• seduce (transitive) To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship. [1550s]
• seduce (transitive) To win over or attract.
• suborn To achieve (some result; specifically, perjury) in a corrupt manner.

betray — full definition

1. verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
2. verb To reveal something unintentionally.

Mack — full definition

1. noun (slang) Someone who is smooth and confident at flirting or picking up partners.
2. verb (slang) To flirt with someone, often persistently or smoothly.
3. noun (British, informal) A raincoat; short for mackintosh.

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