ensnare

• insnare

From en- +‎ snare.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈsnɛə/, /ɪn-/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈsnɛ(ə)ɹ/, /ɪn-/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: en‧snare

ensnare (third-person singular simple present ensnares, present participle ensnaring, simple past and past participle ensnared)

1. To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap.
   • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 160, lines 1289–1292:

     Let theſe / Inſnare the vvretched in the toils of lavv, / Fomenting diſcord, and perplexing right, / An iron race!

   • 1887, Æsop, translated by George Fyler Townsend, Three Hundred Æsop's Fables‎:

     The Geese and the Cranes fed in the same meadow. A birdcatcher came to ensnare them in his nets.

   • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown and 250d-e, Sophist:

     When we were asked to what one should apply the name “what is not”, we were ensnared in total paradox. Remember?

2. To entangle; to enmesh.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎:

     But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.

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