insnare

American  

[in-snair] / ɪnˈsnɛər /

verb (used with object)

insnared, insnaring

1. ensnare.

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insnare British  

/ ɪnˈsnɛə /

verb

1. a less common spelling of ensnare

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Other Word Forms

• insnarement noun
• insnarer noun

Example Sentences

It stands not with our Queens honour to weare an Apron, much lesse her Husband, in the strings; that were to insnare both him and her self in many unsafeties.

From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Ward, Nathaniel

These moments, which ought to be regarded by others with timid respect, are exactly those of which interested cunning makes use, to insnare the unguarded will.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

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

"My enemy maun sen' for an ootlandish speech and a heathen tongue to insnare ane o' the brethren!"

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George

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