decoying

/D AH0 K OY1 IH0 NG/
verb
  1. 1

    To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.

    “to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net”

  2. 2

    To act as, or use, a decoy.

noun
  1. 1

    The act of one who decoys.

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