The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decoy \De*coy"\ (d[-e]*koi"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decoyed (-koid"); p. pr. & vb. n. Decoying.] [Pref. de- + coy; orig., to quiet, soothe, caress, entice. See Coy.] 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.
Did to a lonely cot his steps decoy.
--Thomson.
E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
--Goldsmith.
Syn: To entice; tempt; allure; lure. See Allure.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of decoy English)
Usage examples of "decoying".
Do you think that you, a priest, serve God by decoying an innocent girl away from her home?
We've replaced the standard chaff and flare expendables with tactical air-launched decoys, or TALDs, which are tiny electromagnetic emitters that work far better than chaff or flares in decoying enemy missiles.
He had heard of Air National Guard guys decoying themselves by bringing their KC-135 aerial refueling tankers all the way to the range complex and having them fly the inbound strike routing, buying precious time for the bombers to sneak in low at very high speed to try to make it to their targets.
Fenayrou as "a soft paste" that could be moulded equally well to vice or virtue, a woman destitute of real feeling or strength of will, who, under the direction of her husband, carried out implicitly, precisely and carefully her part in an atrocious murder, whose only effort to prevent the commission of such a deed was to slip away into a church a few minutes before she was to meet the man she was decoying to his death, and pray that his murder might be averted.
You have played false to both husband and lover--to Aubert in decoying him to his death, to your husband by denouncing him directly you were arrested.
I had a fancy plan worked out for decoying him into a side alley, but I had a freak piece of luck.