Bait and Ward

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Bait

Bait verb - To lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage.
Usage example: the investment scheme cunningly baits the greedy and the unscrupulous
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Ward is an antonym for bait.
Nearby Words: baited, baiting, baiter, baity

Ward

Ward verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
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Bait is an antonym for ward.
Nearby Words: warden, wardship, warder, warded, wardroom
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How words are described

old old bait old ward
good good bait good ward
female female bait female ward
perfect perfect bait perfect ward
Other adjectives: true, single, actual, entire, real, private, new, teenage.

Common collocations

person bait person ward person
evil bait evil ward evil

Both words in one sentence

  • Moral Event Horizon / Live-Action TV If that didn't do it, Ward either shooting and killing Rosalind Price to bait Coulson or personally torturing Simmons out of anger and desperation might have.
    Source: Moral Event Horizon / Live-Action TV
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Ward and Bait. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bait/ward
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Ward or Bait. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bait/ward.

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