luring
luring is the present participle and gerund 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.
Noun
luring (plural lurings)
- allurement
- Perhaps the most striking instance of this desired appropriation of color, particularly the color that Pope associated with nature and, through nature, with the muse and all her feminine lurings, can be found in Windsor-Forest […]1988, Ruth Salvaggio, Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine
- […] the criminals […] carry on with all their endeavours for many months or even years, building up a reputation of invulnerability in the process and thus presenting a bad example to those susceptible to the seemingly profitable lurings of crime.2004, Adam Edwards, Peter Gill, Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on Global Security
Forms of luring
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