Synonyms for ensnare
ɛnˈsnɛəren·snare

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1. ensnare

   To catch is to come up with or take possession of something departing, fugitive, or illusive. We catch a runaway horse, a flying ball, a mouse in a trap. We clutch with a swift, tenacious movement of the fingers; we grasp with a firm but moderate closure of the whole hand; we grip or gripe with the strongest muscular closure of the whole hand possible to exert. We clasp in the arms. We snatch with a quick, sudden, and usually a surprising motion. In the figurative sense, catch is used of any act that brings a person or thing into our power or possession; as, to catch a criminal in the act; to catch an idea, in the sense of apprehend or comprehend. Compare ARREST.

   Synonyms:
   apprehend, capture, catch, clasp, clutch, comprehend, discover, entrap, grasp, grip, gripe, lay hold of (on, upon), overtake, secure, seize, snatch, take, take hold of

   Antonyms:
   fail of, fall short of, give up, let go, lose, miss, release, restore, throw aside, throw away

   Preposition:
   To catch at a straw; to catch a fugitive by the collar; to catch a ball with the left hand; he caught the disease from the patient; the thief was caught in the act; the bird in the snare.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ensnare, entrap, frame, set upverb

   take or catch as if in a snare or trap

   "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"

   Synonyms:
   tack together, put together, draw up, prepare, put, piece, tack, fix, establish, put in, gear up, put up, found, trammel, frame, entrap, trap, cast, arrange, frame in, redact, border, snare, instal, order, erect, raise, couch, lay out, launch, pitch, ready, set up, effect, frame up, effectuate, install, rear, assemble, compose, set, rig

2. trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, trammelverb

   catch in or as if in a trap

   "The men trap foxes"

   Synonyms:
   restrict, pin, trammel, snare, restrain, frame, set up, bound, hook, throttle, immobilize, entrap, immobilise, confine, trap, limit, pin down

Matched Categories

1. • Capture
   • Deceive
   • Hunting

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ensnareverb

   Synonyms:
   [Written also Insnare.] entrap, catch

2. ensnareverb

   Synonyms:
   inveigle, allure, seduce

3. ensnareverb

   Synonyms:
   entangle, embarrass, confound, perplex, bewilder, pose, nonplus, stagger, mystify

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1. List of paraphrases for "ensnare":

   trap, scavenge

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How to use ensnare in a sentence?

1. David Cameron:

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2. Gandolfo - (RJ Intindola):

   Not all who betray feel guilt and remorse. They often proclaim the betrayed deserved the punishment for past actions. A rationalization intended to ensnare the ignorant and offer warrant. Remember. The betrayer was either attempting to gain something for themselves, or to inflict pain upon you; or both.

3. June Jordan:

   Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.