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Decoy Meaning In Urdu

Decoy Meaning in English to Urdu is دام, as written in Urdu and Daam, as written in Roman Urdu. There are many synonyms of Decoy which include Allurement, Attraction, Beard, Blind, Booster, Camouflage, Catch, Chicane, Chicanery, Deception, Enticement, Facade, Fake, Front, Imitation, Inducement, Inveiglement, Lure, Plant, Seducement, Shill, Snare, Stick, Temptation, Trick, Trickery, Sitting Duck, Stool Pigeon, Nark, Pretense, Ensnarement, Blow Off, Drawing Card, etc.

Definitions of 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.

n. A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.

n. A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.

n. 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.

transitive v. To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice

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How To Spell Decoy [noun dee-koi, dih-koi; verb dih-koi]

Origin of Decoy Mid 16th century (earlier as coy): from Dutch de kooi ‘the decoy’, from Middle Dutch de kouw ‘the cage’, from Latin cavea ‘cage’. decoy (sense 2 of the noun) is from the practice of using tamed ducks to lead wild ones along channels into capti

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