baited
受饵,诱饵,上钩的,上钩了
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Definitions
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- : food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- : a poisoned lure used in exterminating pests.
- : an allurement; enticement: Employees were lured with the bait of annual bonuses.
- : an object for pulling molten or liquefied material, as glass, from a vat or the like by adhesion.
- : South Midland and Southern U.S. a large or sufficient quantity or amount: He fetched a good bait of wood.an excessive quantity or amount.
- : British Slang. food.
- 1
- : to prepare with bait.
- : to entice by deception or trickery so as to entrap or destroy: using fake signal lights to bait the ships onto the rocks.
- : to attract, tempt, or captivate.
- : to set dogs upon for sport.
- : to worry, torment, or persecute, especially with malicious remarks: a nasty habit of baiting defenseless subordinates.
- : to tease: They love to bait him about his gaudy ties.
- : to feed and water, especially during a journey.
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Archaic.
- : to stop for food or refreshment during a journey.
- : to take food; feed.
Phrases
- bait and switch
- fish or cut bait
- jump at (the bait)
- rise to the bait
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Policing experts said Goodman, 40, used himself as “bait” to lure the rioters away from the Senate chambers.
In later lab experiments, the researchers observed several brown tree snakes using this lasso-like posture when placed inside an enclosure with a wide pole topped with a dead mouse for bait.
Such traps sell for $25 to $50 each and can hold considerable bait and crabs.
Shad, menhaden, mullet, and fish heads and viscera from filleting are ideal crab baits.
In years passed, I simply monitored the shrimp run as an observer, mostly interested in bait shrimp for fishing.
He is being baited daily to say, definitively, that he is running.
Still, this is a pretty cool perspective on the sea life that comes out when we drop in a freshly-baited net.
As the country waited with baited breath, national media covered the mission to rescue the miners, stuck 240 feet underground.
She baited the line and stood on the muddy bank in that outfit.
Another soldier was outed by an Evangelical roommate who had baited him into the revelation.
Floats, or bobs, were made from bits of wood, and the baited hook was allowed to sink ten or twelve feet.
They still seized the throw-bait that was cast out, but not one of them would take a baited hook.
The recipient fluttered and prinked, and baited another hook; and Ida stole a look at Charley.
In these mysterious depths fish are supposed to hide, and a baited hook will be stripped of its bait in a few minutes.
Nasalibut giyud ang kawatan sa gipan-an ug kwarta, They finally caught the thief when they baited him with money.