Skip to main content

lured

/loor/US // lʊər //UK // (lʊə) //

诱骗,诱使,诱惑,引诱

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
    • : the power of attracting or enticing.
    • : a decoy; live or especially artificial bait used in fishing or trapping.
    • : Falconry. a feathered decoy for attracting a hawk, swung at the end of a long line and sometimes baited with raw meat.
    • : a flap or tassel dangling from the dorsal fin of pediculate fishes, as the angler, that attracts prey to the mouth region.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    lured, lur·ing.

    • : to attract, entice, or tempt; allure.
    • : to draw or recall, as by a lure or decoy.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbattract, seduce

Examples

  • She can see the immediate drawbacks, but you’re baiting her, dangling a bit of knowledge like a lure.

  • The pale mask might work as a visual lure in dim light or might play a role in wafting scents, a romantic feature in some other bats’ courtships.

  • Still, the lure of those platforms was too great and drove advertisers to keep funding them against their better judgment.

  • When his lure server was unpatched, the attackers were able to use a powershell script to successfully change an admin password and backdoor the server.

  • Never underestimate the lure of an escape, especially in trying times.

  • Maula Bux himself was killed in 2006, after being lured across the border by Iranian forces on the pretext of a drug deal.

  • Roger Williams lured them with private plane rides, generous consulting contracts and even cash, interviews and records show.

  • Mostafaei said Jabbari was lured to the apartment of the man from the intelligence service.

  • Without such action, they fear, many of their surviving troops may be lured into the ranks of ISIS.

  • Before long, it was the instruments, not the cake, that lured Keith.

  • And I have been passing through one of the fiercest temptations that ever lured a man to the edge of the Pit.

  • The soldier of Revolution must not be lured from the field of battle by the siren song of love.

  • But home beckoned and lured her onward, and the hope of a long dream filled her soul.

  • She drew back from me a little as I came; but her eyes did not waver from mine, and these lured me forward.

  • Barrett eventually lured Maitland into deep water, long past the bathing machine of adieu forevermore, as he called it.