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lure
lure is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
- 2noun
Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.
- 3noun
A velvet smoothing brush.
- 4noun
To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
- 5intransitive verb
To recall a hawk or other animal.
- 6noun
something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
- 7noun
qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
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- 8noun
anything that serves as an enticement
- 9verb
provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
"He lured me into temptation"
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