Entrap synonyms

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ensnare
To take or catch in or as if in a snare; trap.
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ambush (related)
To hide in ambush
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tangle
To involve in a complicated situation or in circumstances from which it is difficult to disengage:
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trap
To trap is defined as to catch someone or something.
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decoy
To act or use a decoy.
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inveigle
To win over by coaxing, flattery, or artful talk:
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trick
To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
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seduce
To persuade to do something disloyal, disobedient, etc.
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catch (related)
To seize or intercept a object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium). syn. transl. [from 16th c.]
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entangle (related)
To involve in difficulty
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deceive (related)
To cause to believe what is not true; mislead.
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tempt (related)
To tempt is to try to entice someone to do something, or to have an urge or desire to do something.
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allure
To entice; to attract.
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bait
To attract with bait; to entice.
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beguile
To beguile is defined as to deceive someone in a cunning way or to enchant someone and make him become attracted to you.
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entice
The definition of entice is persuade or attract by offering pleasure.
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entrammel
To hamper by entangling
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hook
To be caught by a hook
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insnare
Alternative spelling of ensnare.
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lure
To attract, tempt, or entice
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nail
(Slang) To strike or bring down:
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snare
To catch or hold, especially with a loop.
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exclude (antonym)
(Law, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
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release (antonym)
To set free from confinement or bondage:
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free (antonym)
Free means to release or let go.
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liberate (antonym)
(Chem.) To free from combination in a compound
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clear (antonym)
To free (a person or thing) of or from something
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disentangle (antonym)
To clear up or resolve (a plot, for example); unravel.
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enmesh
To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult
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ensnarl
To draw into a snarl or tangle
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trammel
To enmesh in a fishing net.
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web
A structure of fine, elastic, threadlike filaments characteristically spun by spiders to catch insect prey. The larvae of certain insects also weave webs that serve as protective shelters for feeding and may include leaves or other plant parts.
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frame
(Intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
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set up
To ready something for use.
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capture
To effect the capture of (a subatomic particle)
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Entrap Sentence Examples

  • A treaty projected on the news of the massacre of St Bartholomew, by which Mary should be sent back to Scotland for immediate execution, was broken off by the death of the earl of Mar, who had succeeded Lennox as regent; nor was it found possible to come to acceptable terms on a like understanding with his successor Morton, who in 1577 sent a proposal to Mary for her restoration, which she declined, in suspicion of a plot laid to entrap her by the policy of Sir Francis Walsingham, the most unscrupulously patriotic of her English enemies, who four years afterwards sent word to Scotland that the execution of Morton, so long the ally of England, would be answered by the execution of Mary.

  • Certainly no plot was laid by James to entrap the Ruthvens, and the only question is, was the brawl in which they fell accidental, or had a plot hatched in deep secrecy been frustrated by unexpected circumstances?

  • They therefore sent a joint deputation of Pharisees and Herodians to entrap Him with a question as to the Roman tribute, in answering which He must either lose His influence with the people or else lay Himself open to a charge of treason.

  • Metternich was anxious to secure an apparent unanimity of the powers to back the Austrian intervention in Naples, and every device was used to entrap the English representative into subscribing a formula which would have seemed to commit Great Britain to the principles of the other allies.

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