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ENTRAP

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Irregular inflected forms: entrapped    , entrapping   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Catch in or as if in a trap

Example:

The men trap foxes

Synonyms:

ensnare; entrap; snare; trammel; trap

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "entrap" is one way to...):

capture; catch (capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping)

Domain category:

hunt; hunting (the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "entrap"):

gin (trap with a snare)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take or catch as if in a snare or trap

Example:

The innocent man was framed by the police

Synonyms:

ensnare; entrap; frame; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "entrap" is one way to...):

cozen; deceive; delude; lead on (be false to; be dishonest with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to entrap the prisoners

Derivation:

entrapment (a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Notwithstanding the aversion with which I regarded the idea of entrapping him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily, I should have taken him up at this point, but for the strange proceedings in which I saw him engaged; whereof his putting the lemon-peel into the kettle, the sugar into the snuffer-tray, the spirit into the empty jug, and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of a candlestick, were among the most remarkable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)