lured

Verb

lure (third-person singular simple present lures, present participle luring, simple past and past participle lured)

1. (transitive) To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.
   • It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries.2012, Kate Bassett, “Mid-Seventies Onwards: Operatic beginnings and The Body in Question”, in In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller, London: Oberon Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 219

   Synonyms:

   entice

2. (transitive) To attract fish with a lure.
3. (transitive) To recall a hawk with a lure.

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