decoying
Meaning of decoying
- lure or entice (a person or animal) away from their intended course, typically into a trap.
they would try to decoy the enemy towards the hidden group
mid 16th century (earlier as coy ): from Dutch de kooi ‘the decoy’, from Middle Dutch de kouw ‘the cage’, from Latin cavea ‘cage’. decoy (sense 2 of the noun) is from the practice of using tamed ducks to lead wild ones along channels into captivity.
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Hyphenation of decoying
de-coy-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- decoying is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
decoying synonyms
Meaning tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward:
Meaning attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage:
Meaning succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something:
Meaning persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery:
Meaning catch in or as in a trap:
Meaning entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise:
Meaning entice (someone) into sexual activity:
Meaning trick (someone) into committing a crime in order to secure their prosecution:
Meaning catch (a bird or mammal) in a snare:
Meaning catch (an animal) in a trap:
Anagrams of decoying
Words that rhyme with decoying
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