[bɪˈɡʌɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way
(e.g: he beguiled the voters with his good looks)

- help (time) pass pleasantly
(e.g: to beguile some of the time they went to the cinema)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘deceive, deprive of by fraud’): from be- ‘thoroughly’ + obsolete guile ‘to deceive’ (see guile)