Snare

Quick meaning: Snare is a noun meaning A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

“[…] riches are a great snare.”

The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.

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

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

Word Forms

• snares
• snaring
• snared

Synonyms for snare

Depending on context, synonyms include trap, ensnare, entrap, noose, gin, trammel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include entrap, ensnare, trap, trammel, noose, gin.

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