What does woo mean?
Woo means (transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support..
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/wuː/ · verb
(transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support..
They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.
Behind this carefully crafted strategy of wooing Trump is a desire from Gulf states to solidify and formalize their positions as the US’ indispensable security and economic partners, and extract as much benefit for themselves as they can.
He [Mark Zuckerberg] wanted to start an AI unit at Facebook, and to woo [Yann] LeCun [he] invited him over for dinner at his California home. A private chef prepared “chicken with some pretty good white wine”, LeCun recalls.
Soo leue we syr Launcelot lyenge within that caue in grete payne / and euery day ther came a lady & brouȝt hym his mete & his drynke / & wowed hym to haue layne by hym / and euer the noble knyghte syre Launcelot sayd her nay. "So leave we Sir Launcelot lying within that cave in great pain; and every day there came a lady and brought him his meat and his drink, and wooed him, to have lain by him; and ever the noble knight, Sir Launcelot, said her nay."
I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.
You woo me, you court me / You tease me, you please me / You school me, give me some things to think about / Ignite me, you invite me
Thee Chauntreſs oft the Woods among, / I woo to hear thy eeven Song;
Use woo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Woo means (transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support..
Common synonyms include court, address, beau, bedear.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.
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