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)
- 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
- To attract fish with a lure.
- To recall a hawk with a 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.
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