Definition of entraps Entraps
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What does entraps mean?
Part of speech
🔤- entraps, verb, present, 3rd person singular of entrap (infinitive).
WordNet
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| entrap - catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes" | ||
| trap, snare, ensnare, trammel | ||
| capture, catch capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping; "I caught a rabbit in the trap today" | ||
| hunting, hunt the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | ||
| gin trap with a snare; "gin game" | ||
| entrap - take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police" | ||
| ensnare, frame, set up | ||
| delude, deceive, lead on, cozen cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- entrap (v. t.)
To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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entrap
en-trap′, v.t. to catch, as in a trap: to ensnare: to entangle.—ns. Entrap′ment, act of entrapping: the state of being entrapped: Entrap′per. [O. Fr. entraper—en, in, trappe, a trap.]
Part of speech
🔤- entrap, verb, present, 1st person singular of entrap (infinitive).
- entrap, verb (infinitive).
