Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To catch in or as if in a trap.
- v. To lure into danger, difficulty, or a compromising situation. See Synonyms at catch.
- v. To lure into performing a previously or otherwise uncontemplated illegal act.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To catch, as in a trap; insnare; hence, to catch by artifice; involve in difficulties or distresses; entangle; catch or involve in contradictions.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To catch something in a trap or snare.
- v. transitive To lure someone, either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions.
WordNet 3.0
- v. take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- v. catch in or as if in a trap
Etymologies
- en- + trap (Wiktionary)
- French entraper, from Old French : en-, in; see en-1 + trape, trap (of Germanic origin). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“These clients often attempt to manipulate with words, performance skills, dollars and the reflected glory of their celebrity and then "entrap" the ofttimes well-intentioned but blindly ambitious physician into becoming a part of their "entourage.”
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“Somewhere or other that downy bird Kipling observes that the lesson of the island race is to put away all emotion and entrap the alien at the proper time. 16 I learned it in my cradle, long before he wrote it, and have practised it all my life with some success, and only this difference, that for "entrap" I prefer to substitute "escape".”
“It was no easy matter to oblige her cousin to understand what she meant; but at last the declaration that she had refused her old lover because she had placed her affections upon Edwin Lechmere, whom she was endeavouring to "entrap," was not to be mistaken; and the country girl was altogether unprepared for the burst of indignant feeling, mingled with much bitterness, which repelled the untruth.”
“Jones told the hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court that British government and judicial officials had worked together to "entrap" Khurts.”
“Zanis replied that he'd pretended to smoke the pot in order to "entrap" the tenant, whom he wanted to evict.”
“And to those who say "Don't our law enforcement officers have something better to do than trying to 'entrap' businesses?" we'd offer this response: Would you rather they were racing to the scene of an alcohol-related crash involving a car filled with teenagers?”
“At the same time, Toyota faces increasing skepticism from U.S. lawmakers that its 2009 recall - 3.8 million vehicles for floor mats that can "entrap”
“Technically officers can't "entrap" a citizen; however, according to”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘entrap’.
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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Your Mission: Find theTraps
List of words that contain the letter string *trap*. Some are obvious and apparent, such as trapezoid, while others are a bit less apparent, such as contrapuntist, ultraphysical, and intraperitoneal.
trapezoid, contrapuntist, wentletrap, allotetraploid, bootstrap, caltrap, unstrap, Trappist, ultraphysical, trapline, Trapt, autotetraploidy and 195 more...
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Come right this way!
Words that draw us toward an object or destination.
lure, attract, bait, beguile, beckon, bewitch, cajole, captivate, charm, coax, come on, decoy and 12 more...
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i.e.
On the model of insure/ensure.
insure, ensure, inquire, enquire, indorse, endorse, inter, enter, inthrall, enthrall, inflame, enflame and 42 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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