Vocabulary
Lured
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
Something that persuades one to perform an action for pleasure or gain
Urdu meaning
لالچ / ورغلانا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The big question is, what circumstances forced, tricked or lured Pakistan into signing such an agreement.
- From here on the floodgates opened with accuser after accuser, mostly high-school girls lured by the prospect of easy money and modelling contracts, coming forward.
- Vanunu, a closet antinuclear activist, let the cat out to a British newspaper in 1986, for which he was lured by Mossad to Italy where they drugged and transported him to Israel.
- That`s why Vanunu was lured to Rome.
- Pakistanis have, for years, risked treacherous journeys across the Mediterranean, lured by promises of prosperity in Europe.
Synonyms
Allurement, enticement, Come one
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