The act of luring or tricking someone using bait or deception; currently being trapped or deceived.
Present participle of 'decoy,' from the noun 'decoy.' The -ing form creates the gerund or present progressive, meaning the ongoing action of luring with deception.
Biologists studying animal behavior describe how parent birds are 'decoying' predators away from nests by faking injury—it's instinctive trickery that humans learned to mimic in hunting and warfare thousands of years ago.
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