Usually means: Lured away by a ruse.
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  1. decoyed: Merriam-Webster
  2. decoyed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. decoyed: Vocabulary.com
  4. decoyed: Wordnik
  5. decoyed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. decoyed: Wiktionary
  7. Decoyed, decoyed: Dictionary.com
  8. Decoyed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Decoyed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. decoyed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. decoyed: FreeDictionary.org
  12. decoyed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. decoyed: Legal dictionary

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  1. decoyed: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decoy)

noun:  A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
noun:  A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
noun:  Deceptive military device used to draw enemy attention or fire away from a more important target.
noun:  An assembly of hooped or netted corridors into which wild ducks may be enticed (originally by tame ducks) and trapped.
verb:  (transitive) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as, or use, a decoy.
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