All bait synonyms
bait
B b verb bait
- seduce β to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- irk β to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- torment β to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- tease β to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- bedevil β If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
- draw β to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- fascinate β to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- beguile β If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
- allure β to entice or tempt (someone) to a person or place or to a course of action; attract
- tempt β to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
- attract β If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- hound β Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- nag β to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
- bother β If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
- heckle β to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- gall β (Pizi) 1840?β94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
- persecute β to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- anger β Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
- provoke β to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- badger β A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
- taunt β to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
- razz β to deride; make fun of; tease.
- goad β a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- rag β a musical composition in ragtime: a piano rag.
- needle β a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- lead on β to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
noun bait
- lure β anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- temptation β the act of tempting; enticement or allurement.
- come-on β inducement; lure.
- attraction β An attraction is a feature which makes something interesting or desirable.
- drag β drag and drop
- trap β a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
- bribe β A bribe is a sum of money or something valuable that one person offers or gives to another in order to persuade him or her to do something.
- snare β one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
- allurement β fascination; charm.
- inducement β the act of inducing.
- shill β a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
- pull β pull media
- carrot β Carrots are long, thin, orange-coloured vegetables. They grow under the ground, and have green shoots above the ground.