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lurest

lurest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of lure.

Meaning of lure

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.

See all 7 meanings of lure

Origin of lurest

lure + -est

Questions about lurest

What is lurest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lurest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of lure.

Words near lurest in the dictionary

  1. Luren
  2. lurer
  3. lurers
  4. lures
  5. luresome
  6. lurest
  7. Lurestan
  8. lureth
  9. lurex
  10. Lurg
  11. Lurgan

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