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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.
Synonyms: ,
- 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/ ɛə /
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/ ɛə /
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
- ˈԲ, noun
- ˈԲ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- Բl adjective
- Բİ noun
- ԲiԲ· adverb
- ܲ·Բ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of snare1
Origin of snare2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of snare1
Origin of snare2
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
It is safe to say there is not a big law firm in this country that would not have some part of their work fall under this snare, especially through their pro bono work.
A whisper here, a wink there; it all goes inside the bottomless black bag, meant to snare and snuff out interpersonal mysteries before they become marital weaknesses.
England seem trapped, like a tortoise and an ancient athlete,, external in some logic snare; for every advance they claim to make, the opposition always stay just out of reach.
Ian Platt said his son snared "a very large artillery round, which looks live" from under a bridge spanning the River Aire, in Leeds, earlier.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The ebullient thrum of staccato snares, thumping sousaphones, and tramping shoes all acting in unison filled the gray morning air in the parking lot outside Angel Stadium recently.
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