Meaning

A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather)..

Definitions by Sense

1. A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
2. A mental or psychological trap.
3. (veterinary medicine) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
4. (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
5. (music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
6. (music) A snare drum.
7. (transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.
8. (transitive, figurative) To ensnare.

Example Sentences

He […] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare.

He felt a snare tightening around his throat; he gasped and threw a leg out of the bed, where it jerked for a second or two, thumping the steel frame, and died.

If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:

[…] if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

[…] and I had now liv’d two Years under these Uneasinesses, which indeed made my Life much less comfortable than it was before; as may well be imagin’d by any who know what it is to live in the constant Snare of the Fear of Man […]

“[…] riches are a great snare.”

They were devious war aims, and Allenby’s campaign was fought with a maximum of snare and subterfuge.

The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.

Word Forms

• snares
• snaring
• snared

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