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Luring vs Lurking - What's the difference?

luring | lurking |

As verbs the difference between luring and lurking

is that luring is present participle of lang=en while lurking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between luring and lurking

is that luring is allurement while lurking is the act of one who lurks.

luring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • allurement
  • * 1988 , Ruth Salvaggio, Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine
    • Perhaps the most striking instance of this desired appropriation of color, particularly the color that Pope associated with nature and, through nature, with the muse and all her feminine lurings , can be found in Windsor-Forest
  • * 2004 , Adam Edwards, Peter Gill, Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on Global Security
    • carry on with all their endeavours for many months or even years, building up a reputation of invulnerability in the process and thus presenting a bad example to those susceptible to the seemingly profitable lurings of crime.

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    lurking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who lurks.
  • * 2011 , Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals (page 99)
    • In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings , and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.