snare
1a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
anything serving to entrap or entangle unawares; trap.
Surgery. a wire noose for removing tumors or the like by the roots or at the base.
to catch with a snare; entangle.
to catch or involve by trickery or wile: to snare her into going.
Origin of snare
1synonym study For snare
Other words for snare
Other words from snare
- snareless, adjective
- snarer, noun
- snar·ing·ly, adverb
- un·snared, adjective
Other definitions for snare (2 of 2)
one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
Origin of snare
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How to use snare in a sentence
Thank goodness she was thus snared, for even today she has no equal.
“The web she wove snared her a long time before she entered the courtroom,” he says.
It has snared, or threatens to snare, millions of taxpayers in the middle class and above.
"Operation Ivy League" last week snared five Columbia students, accused of running a large drug-selling operation.
And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
She knew that she was snared, but she showed no sign of fear.
The Proud Prince | Justin Huntly McCarthyHe set nets in the river, he snared birds in the forest, and he worked at any odd jobs that came along.
Mighty Mikko | Parker FillmoreThe irony in the compliments he received on being snared by a girl he had tried to snare cooled his infatuation.
Court Beauties of Old Whitehall | W. R. H. TrowbridgeWhen we snared a rabbit, I always wanted to find it caught around the neck and strangled to death.
Beautiful Joe | Marshall Saunders
British Dictionary definitions for snare (1 of 2)
/ (snɛə) /
a device for trapping birds or small animals, esp a flexible loop that is drawn tight around the prey
a surgical instrument for removing certain tumours, consisting of a wire loop that may be drawn tight around their base to sever or uproot them
anything that traps or entangles someone or something unawares
to catch (birds or small animals) with a snare
to catch or trap in or as if in a snare; capture by trickery
Origin of snare
1Derived forms of snare
- snareless, adjective
- snarer, noun
British Dictionary definitions for snare (2 of 2)
/ (snɛə) /
music a set of gut strings wound with wire fitted against the lower drumhead of a snare drum. They produce a rattling sound when the drum is beaten: See snare drum
Origin of snare
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