decoy
noun
a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like.
decoyed
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past participleof decoy.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof decoy.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
decoynouna person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like.
Example Sentences
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I sent him on a long scavenger hunt, then decoyed him in for a backhand drop and flicked it crosscourt into open space.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016
But then: "The tempter came, like the serpent of Eden, and decoyed them with the majic word of 'freedom.'"
From Time ● Apr. 7, 2011
Cost of equipment and wages has gone up; motor cars have decoyed passengers and, by crowding thoroughfares, have increased cost of running cars.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Mrs. Bevan who "decoyed" the aide got $25,000 and the Robinsons received $125,000, which the male Robin son paid over to the female, and started divorce proceedings.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the interval he had stepped ashore, and was decoyed into a neighboring wood by the bright glow, which proved to be a fallen tree ablaze with phosphorescence.
From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson
