transcription, транскрипция: [ ljʊə(r), AM lʊr ]
( lures, luring, lured)
1.
To lure someone means to trick them into a particular place or to trick them into doing something that they should not do.
He lured her to his home and shot her with his father’s gun...
The company aims to lure smokers back to cigarettes.
= entice
VERB : V n prep / adv , V n prep / adv
2.
A lure is an object which is used to attract animals so that they can be caught.
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3.
A lure is an attractive quality that something has, or something that you find attractive.
The excitement of hunting big game in Africa has been a lure to Europeans for 200 years...
The lure of rural life is proving as strong as ever.
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