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- DictionaryLure/lo͝or/
verb
- 1. tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward: "the child was lured into a car but managed to escape"
noun
- 1. something that tempts or is used to tempt a person or animal to do something: "the film industry always has been a glamorous lure for young girls"
to persuade someone to do something or go somewhere by offering them something exciting: She was lured into the job by the offer of a high salary. He had lured his victim to a deserted house. Supermarket chains try to lure customers with price discounts. Synonyms. attract. entice. tempt. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples.
The meaning of LURE is an object usually of leather or feathers attached to a long cord and used by a falconer to recall or exercise a hawk. How to use lure in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Lure.
to persuade someone to do something or go somewhere by offering them something exciting: She was lured into the job by the offer of a high salary. He had lured his victim to a deserted house. Supermarket chains try to lure customers with price discounts. Synonyms. attract. entice. tempt. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples.
Definitions of lure. verb. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion. “He lured me into temptation”. synonyms: entice, tempt. see more. noun. anything that serves as an enticement. synonyms: bait, come-on, hook, sweetener.
Lure definition: anything that attracts, entices, or allures.. See examples of LURE used in a sentence.
lure. lure somebody (+ adv./prep.) to persuade or trick somebody to go somewhere or to do something by promising them a reward synonym entice. The child was lured into a car but managed to escape. Young people are lured to the city by the prospect of a job and money.
anything that attracts, entices, or allures. the power of attracting or enticing. a decoy; live or esp. artificial bait used in fishing or trapping. Sport [ Falconry.]a feathered decoy for attracting a hawk, swung at the end of a long line and sometimes baited with raw meat.
Lured Definition. Simple past tense and past participle of lure.
1. Something that attracts, especially with the promise of pleasure or reward: allurement, bait, come-on, enticement, inducement, inveiglement, invitation, seduction, temptation. 2. Something that leads one into a place or situation from which escape is difficult: bait, snare, trap. 3.
To lure someone means to trick them into a particular place or to trick them into doing something that they should not do. He lured them to the warehouse by claiming that he had left his money there. They did not realize that they were being lured into a trap. Synonyms: tempt, draw, attract, invite More Synonyms of lure. 2. countable noun.
