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Mentally I made facetious comparisons between the technical ingenuity of the weapons whose praises were sung by the instructor (all those self-sealing fuel tanks and decoy-projectors) and the rudimentary mechanics of my own love affairs.Une comparaison comique opposa dans ma tête l'ingéniosité des armes que vantait l'instructeur (tous ces réservoirs auto-obturants et autres lance-leurres) et la rudimentaire mécanique de ces amours.Makine, Andreï / Requiem For A Lost EmpireMakine, Andreï / Requiem pour l'EstRequiem pour l'EstMakine, Andreï© 2000 by Mercure de FranceRequiem For A Lost EmpireMakine, Andreï© 2001 by Geoffrey Strachan© 2000 by Mercure de France
She would be the decoy, I gathered, to get Karolides out of the care of his guards.Elle devait, paraît-il, servir d'appeau, et soustraire Karolidès à la surveillance de ses gardes.Buchan, John / Thirty-Nine StepsBuchan, John / Les Trente-Neuf MarchesLes Trente-Neuf MarchesBuchan, JohnThirty-Nine StepsBuchan, John
The Widow Fromond, with a lip half decoyed by a cancerous formation, merely had to apply the miraculous water to it as a lotion, and not even a red mark remained.La veuve Fromond, dont la lèvre était à moitié détruite par un cancer, n’eut qu’à se la lotionner, et il ne resta pas même une couture.Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - LourdesLes Trois Villes - LourdesZola, EmileThe Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile
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decoy ship
navire-piège
Word forms
decoy
noun
Singular | Plural | |
Common case | decoy | decoys |
Possessive case | decoy's | decoys' |
decoy
verb
Basic forms | |
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Past | decoyed |
Imperative | decoy |
Present Participle (Participle I) | decoying |
Past Participle (Participle II) | decoyed |
Present Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I decoy | we decoy |
you decoy | you decoy |
he/she/it decoys | they decoy |
Present Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I am decoying | we are decoying |
you are decoying | you are decoying |
he/she/it is decoying | they are decoying |
Present Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I have decoyed | we have decoyed |
you have decoyed | you have decoyed |
he/she/it has decoyed | they have decoyed |
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I have been decoying | we have been decoying |
you have been decoying | you have been decoying |
he/she/it has been decoying | they have been decoying |
Past Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I decoyed | we decoyed |
you decoyed | you decoyed |
he/she/it decoyed | they decoyed |
Past Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I was decoying | we were decoying |
you were decoying | you were decoying |
he/she/it was decoying | they were decoying |
Past Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I had decoyed | we had decoyed |
you had decoyed | you had decoyed |
he/she/it had decoyed | they had decoyed |
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I had been decoying | we had been decoying |
you had been decoying | you had been decoying |
he/she/it had been decoying | they had been decoying |
Future Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will decoy | we shall/will decoy |
you will decoy | you will decoy |
he/she/it will decoy | they will decoy |
Future Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will be decoying | we shall/will be decoying |
you will be decoying | you will be decoying |
he/she/it will be decoying | they will be decoying |
Future Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will have decoyed | we shall/will have decoyed |
you will have decoyed | you will have decoyed |
he/she/it will have decoyed | they will have decoyed |
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will have been decoying | we shall/will have been decoying |
you will have been decoying | you will have been decoying |
he/she/it will have been decoying | they will have been decoying |
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I should/would decoy | we should/would decoy |
you would decoy | you would decoy |
he/she/it would decoy | they would decoy |
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I should/would be decoying | we should/would be decoying |
you would be decoying | you would be decoying |
he/she/it would be decoying | they would be decoying |
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I should/would have decoyed | we should/would have decoyed |
you would have decoyed | you would have decoyed |
he/she/it would have decoyed | they would have decoyed |
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I should/would have been decoying | we should/would have been decoying |
you would have been decoying | you would have been decoying |
he/she/it would have been decoying | they would have been decoying |
Present Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
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I am decoyed | we are decoyed |
you are decoyed | you are decoyed |
he/she/it is decoyed | they are decoyed |
Present Continuous, Passive Voice | |
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I am being decoyed | we are being decoyed |
you are being decoyed | you are being decoyed |
he/she/it is being decoyed | they are being decoyed |
Present Perfect, Passive Voice | |
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I have been decoyed | we have been decoyed |
you have been decoyed | you have been decoyed |
he/she/it has been decoyed | they have been decoyed |
Past Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
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I was decoyed | we were decoyed |
you were decoyed | you were decoyed |
he/she/it was decoyed | they were decoyed |
Past Continuous, Passive Voice | |
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I was being decoyed | we were being decoyed |
you were being decoyed | you were being decoyed |
he/she/it was being decoyed | they were being decoyed |
Past Perfect, Passive Voice | |
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I had been decoyed | we had been decoyed |
you had been decoyed | you had been decoyed |
he/she/it had been decoyed | they had been decoyed |
Future Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
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I shall/will be decoyed | we shall/will be decoyed |
you will be decoyed | you will be decoyed |
he/she/it will be decoyed | they will be decoyed |
Future Perfect, Passive Voice | |
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I shall/will have been decoyed | we shall/will have been decoyed |
you will have been decoyed | you will have been decoyed |
he/she/it will have been decoyed | they will have been decoyed |