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Courted

To seek to achieve or win.

📖 Definitions of "Courted"

verb

1
To seek to achieve or win.
"He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted."
2
To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
"He courted controversy with his frank speeches."
3
To try to win a commitment to marry from.
4
To engage in behavior leading to mating.
"The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance."

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
courtyardnoun	An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings.
motelverb	(informal, intransitive) To stay in a motel or motels.
motor hotelnoun	motel
motor innnoun	motel
motor lodgenoun	A motel.
tourist courtnoun	(US, dated) Synonym of motel.
wooverb	(transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's affection/support.
solicitverb	(transitive) To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
homageverb	(transitive, obsolete) To pay reverence to by external action.
courtroomnoun	The room where a judge presides over hearings and trials, sometimes with a jury.
judicaturenoun	The administration of justice by judges and courts; judicial process.
tribunalnoun	(law) An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
romanceverb	(transitive) To woo; to court.
wooedverb	(transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's affection/support.
spurnedverb	rebuffed (by a lover) without warning
snubbedverb	(transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
recruitedverb	To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
shunnedverb	(transitive) To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.
houndedverb	a 2001 American comedy film released as a Disney Channel Original Movie and starring Tahj Mowry, Craig Kirkwood, Shia LaBeouf and Ed Begley, Jr.
seducedverb	(transitive) To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship.