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allured

allured is the simple past and past participle of allure.

Meaning of allure

Verb

allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)

  1. (transitive) To entice; to attract.
    • [They retained] their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake trueillers, whom gotten they did kill.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371

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What is allured the simple past and past participle of?
Allured is the simple past and past participle of allure.

Words near allured in the dictionary

  1. alluminor
  2. alluminors
  3. allurance
  4. allurances
  5. allure
  6. allured
  7. allurement
  8. allurements
  9. allurer
  10. allurers
  11. allures

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