decoy
noun
a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like.
is decoying
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present progressiveof decoy (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"The O.C. is decoying the stranger away to turn him over to the watchmen without violence," guessed Midshipman Farley.
From Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
