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snare
1[ snair ]
noun
- a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- anything serving to entrap or entangle unawares; trap.
- Surgery. a wire noose for removing tumors or the like by the roots or at the base.
verb (used with object)
- to catch with a snare; entangle.
- to catch or involve by trickery or wile:
to snare her into going.
snare
2[ snair ]
noun
- one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
snare
1/ snɛə /
noun
- a device for trapping birds or small animals, esp a flexible loop that is drawn tight around the prey
- a surgical instrument for removing certain tumours, consisting of a wire loop that may be drawn tight around their base to sever or uproot them
- anything that traps or entangles someone or something unawares
verb
- to catch (birds or small animals) with a snare
- to catch or trap in or as if in a snare; capture by trickery
snare
2/ snɛə /
noun
- music a set of gut strings wound with wire fitted against the lower drumhead of a snare drum. They produce a rattling sound when the drum is beaten See snare drum
Derived Forms
- ˈsnarer, noun
- ˈsnareless, adjective
Other Words From
- snareless adjective
- snarer noun
- snaring·ly adverb
- un·snared adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of snare1
Origin of snare2
Word History and Origins
Origin of snare1
Origin of snare2
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Still more keys engage an array of other sounds, from snare drums and cymbals to awooga horns and sirens.
Meant to capture fish by the gills (hence the name), they snare anything from sea turtles to dolphins.
After police confronted Dilello with the wiretaps, she agreed to wear a wire to snare Hagiwara and admit her role in the plot.
Should Mr. Greenberg snare a major settlement without A.I.G., the company could face additional lawsuits from other shareholders.
It has snared, or threatens to snare, millions of taxpayers in the middle class and above.
Consult not with him that layeth a snare for thee, and hide thy counsel from them that envy thee.
And treaties, of whatever kind with the enemies of God, that are condemned, are to be shunned as a snare to the soul.
It was when she found a reindeer caught in the vines that she took the first step in making a snare.
This granted, how can we know whether God wants to instruct us or to lay a snare for us?
Looking back, he saw that his fear of the world had been nothing to his fear of women, of the half-spiritual, half-sensual snare.
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