entrap
verb (used with object)
to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare.
entraps
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present tense formof entrap (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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FBI Director Kash Patel said "you cannot create a scenario that illegally entraps and puts law enforcement in harm's way."
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
Sterling’s performance art slowly becomes indistinguishable from the Kafkaesque legal system that entraps the performers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023
Instead, what it shows is that rather than open doors for students, debt entraps them.
From Salon ● May 8, 2021
Alcina, the sorceress who entraps soldiers in her pleasure garden, is here haunted by aging; her elderly double wanders the set.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2019
I am convinced that in Nobeoka there is not a single high-collared guy who passes round threadbare remarks, or who with smooth face, entraps innocent people.
From Botchan (Master Darling) by Yasotaro Morri
