Lured vs Dured - What's the difference?
lured | dured |
(lure)
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
(fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
* 1594 , , IV. i. 178:
A velvet smoothing brush.
To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
To recall a hawk with a lure.
deceive, trick
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(dure)
(label) To last, continue, endure.
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*:she was one of the damoysels of the lake that hy?te Nyneue // And euer she maade Merlyn good chere tyl she had lerned of hym al maner thynge that she desyred and he was assoted vpon her that he myghte not be from her / Soo on a tyme he told kynge Arthur that he sholde not dure longe but for al his craftes he shold be put in the erthe quyck
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) XIII:
*:But he that was sowne in the stony grunde ys he, which heareth the worde of God, and anon with ioye receaveth itt, yet hath no rottes in himselfe, And therefore he dureth but a season.
(obsolete) hard; harsh; severe; rough
* W. H. Russell
As verbs the difference between lured and dured
is that lured is past tense of lure while dured is past tense of dure.lured
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*lure
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Milton)
- My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, / And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, / For then she never looks upon her lure .
- (Knight)
Verb
(lur)Anagrams
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Verb
dured
English
Verb
(head)dure
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(dur)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (lena) .Adjective
(en adjective)- The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.
