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something that is said or offered to people in order to make them react in a particular way: Free holidays were offered as bait to customers. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Attracting and tempting. affinity. allure. alluringly.
something that is said or offered to people in order to make them react in a particular way: Free vacations were offered as bait to customers. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Attracting and tempting. affinity. allure. alluringly.
1. a. : to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks. bait minority groups. : to try to make angry with criticism or insults. baiting a politician during a debate. : tease. 2. a. : to harass (a chained animal, such as a bear) with dogs usually for sport. b. : to attack by biting and tearing. dogs baiting a fox. 3. a.
1. variable noun. Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals. 2. verb. If you bait a hook or trap, you put bait on it or in it. He baited his hook with pie. [VERB noun + with] The boys dug pits and baited them. [VERB noun] ...baited lures.
noun. something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed. synonyms: decoy, lure. see more. noun. anything that serves as an enticement. synonyms: come-on, hook, lure, sweetener. see more. verb. lure, entice, or entrap with bait. see more. verb. attack with dogs or set dogs upon. see more. verb.
1. a. Food or other lure placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the taking of fish, birds, or other animals. b. Something, such as a worm, used for this purpose. 2. An enticement, temptation, or provocation: He did not take the bait by responding to the taunt and getting drawn into an argument. v. bait·ed, bait·ing, baits. v.tr. 1.
to put food in or on something to try to catch fish or animals: a mouse trap baited with cheese. bait verb [T] (LAUGH) to try to make someone angry by laughing at them or criticizing them. (Definition of bait from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of bait. in Chinese (Traditional) 魚／動物, 餌, 提供… See more.
Definition of bait verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Noun. Verb. Filter. noun. baits. Food or other lure placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the taking of fish, birds, or other animals. American Heritage. Food, etc. put on a hook or trap to lure fish or animals. Webster's New World. Something, such as a worm, used for this purpose. American Heritage. Anything used as a lure; enticement.
bait. [ beyt ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA. noun. food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc. a poisoned lure used in exterminating pests. an allurement; enticement: Employees were lured with the bait of annual bonuses. an object for pulling molten or liquefied material, as glass, from a vat or the like by adhesion.
