What is "snare" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does snare mean in English? Meaning of snare definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "snare" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "snare": something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares

Noun

  • Meaning: something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
  • Example: the exam was full of trap questions it was all a snare and delusion
  • Synonyms: snare trap
  • Hyponyms: iron trap speed trap
  • Hypernyms: design plan
  • Meaning of "snare": catch in or as if in a trap

    Verb

  • Meaning: catch in or as if in a trap
  • Example: The men trap foxes
  • Synonyms: ensnare entrap snare trammel trap
  • Hyponyms: gin
  • Hypernyms: capture catch
  • Meaning of "snare": a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head

    Noun

  • Meaning: a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head
  • Synonyms: side drum snare snare drum
  • Hypernyms: drum membranophone tympan
  • Part Holonyms: snare
  • Meaning of "snare": entice and trap

    Verb

  • Meaning: entice and trap
  • Example: The car salesman had snared three potential customers
  • Synonyms: hook snare
  • Hypernyms: entice lure tempt
  • Meaning of "snare": a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities

    Noun

  • Meaning: a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities
  • Synonyms: snare
  • Hypernyms: surgical instrument
  • Meaning of "snare": strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit

    Noun

  • Meaning: strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit
  • Synonyms: snare
  • Hypernyms: string
  • Meaning of "snare": a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose

    Noun

  • Meaning: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
  • Synonyms: gin noose snare
  • Hypernyms: trap
  • Part Holonyms: slipknot
  • Adjective: A trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.(rare) A mental or psychological trap; usually in the phrase a snare and a delusion. Shakespeare If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, / Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee. 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe ...and I had now lived two years under this uneasiness, which, indeed, made my life much less comfortable than it was before, as may be well imagined by any who know what it is to live in the constant snare of the fear of man.Shakespeare If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, / Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe ...and I had now lived two years under this uneasiness, which, indeed, made my life much less comfortable than it was before, as may be well imagined by any who know what it is to live in the constant snare of the fear of man.(veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.(music) A set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum to create a rattling sound.(music) A snare drum.
  • Synonyms:

    lure, wire, bait, temptation, decoy, trick, enticement, come-on, catch, noose, net, allurement, deception, pitfall, booby trap, inveiglement, quicksand, entrapment, seducement, entangle, round up, enmesh, pull in, corral, lure, wire, seduce, decoy, seize, involve, bag, land, arrest, tempt, entrap, net, get hands on,

    Antonyms:

    repulsion, frankness, honesty, liberation, freedom, exclude, release, liberate, loosen, disenchant, repulse, turn off, let go, free, lose,

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