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insnare

American  
[in-snair] / ɪnˈsnɛər /

verb (used with object)

insnared, insnaring
  1. ensnare.


insnare British  
/ ɪnˈsnɛə /

verb

  1. a less common spelling of ensnare

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Other Word Forms

  • insnarement noun
  • insnarer noun

Example Sentences

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Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

False Orthography.—None ever went sadd from Fingal.—He rejoiced over his sonn.—Clonar lies bleeding on the bedd of death.—Many a trapp is set to insnare the feet of youth.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear, Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

Never losing sight of Prosper for a day, Raoul had exhausted every effort of his fertile mind to compromise his honor, to insnare him into some inextricable entanglement.

From File No. 113 by Gaboriau, Émile

With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander