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
Once it lands on the camouflaged rim, the decoyed bug is helpless, the victim of a slippery substance that can neutralize the suction cups on a fly's feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Good guess: Natskakula had been decoyed back into the Western zone, then grabbed by Army intelligence operatives.
From Time Magazine Archive
They said that the monkey was her consolation in old age and that I had decoyed it away, thus breaking the aged queen's heart.
From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil
