English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of decoy

decoy

/noun/ प्रलोभन; फंदा; लूभाव; चारा; नमूना;
/verb/फंसाना; लूभाना; लुभा देना; फुसलाना; प्रलोभन देना; ; झांसा;

Synonym temptation; noose; bait; sample; implicate; ensnare; seduce; bob;

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English Dictionary:

1. Decoy

[n.]

- Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
- A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
- A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
- A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.

2. Decoy

[v. t.]

- To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.