<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person or thing that tempts, especially to evil.</li><li>the Tempter, Satan; the devil.</li><li>anything used as a lure.</li><li>Synonyms: allurement, inducement, bait, enticement.</li><li>a trained bird or other animal used to entice game into a trap or within gunshot.</li><li>an artificial bird, as a painted wooden duck, used for the same purpose.</li><li>a pond into which wild fowl are lured for capture.</li><li>an object capable of reflecting radar waves, used as a spurious aircraft, missile, chaff, etc., for the deception of radar detectors.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to lure by or as if by a decoy: They decoyed the ducks to an area right in front of the blind.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to become decoyed: Ducks decoy more easily than most other waterfowl.</li></ul>