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Antonyms for lured

Grammar : Verb
Spell : loor
Phonetic Transcription : lʊər

Definition of lured

Origin :
  • early 14c., "something which allures or entices, an attraction" (a figurative use), also "bait for recalling hawks," from Anglo-French lure, Old French loirre "device used to recall hawks, lure," from Frankish *loþr or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *lothran "to call" (cf. Middle High German luoder, Middle Low German loder "lure, bait," German Luder "lure, deceit, bait;" also Old English laþian "to call, invite," German laden).
  • Originally a bunch of feathers on a long cord, from which the hawk is fed during its training. Used of means of alluring other animals (especially fish) from c.1700. Technically, bait is something the animal can eat; lure is a more general term. Also in 15c. a collective word for a group of young women.
  • verb attract, seduce
Example sentences :
  • But I let myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease.
  • Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
  • Nimrod and I had been lured to the Cuttle Fish ranch to go on a wolf hunt.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • It was more than this, however, that lured me back to Labrador.
  • Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
  • Step by step I lured you on until you offered to make me your wife.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • He, too, it is who has lured you out here, to carry you away altogether.
  • Extract from : « Aino Folk-Tales » by Basil Hall Chamberlain
  • My attack had lured him, as I desired that it should, into making a riposte.
  • Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Was it wonderful that I allowed myself to be lured into this affair?
  • Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The intense femininity of her lured him on, invited him, surrendered to him.
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • To this end no plan could be more propitious than that into which he had lured her.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • With hocus-pocus like that no dog is lured from the stove in the real world.
  • Extract from : « Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) » by Frank Wedekind

Synonyms for lured

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