entrap
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French entrapper, entraper, from Old French entraper (“catch in a trap”), equivalent to en- + trap. Compare Middle English bitrappen, from Old English betræppan (“to catch in a trap, entrap”), from the same West Germanic source (see Modern English betrap).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɹæp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æp
Verb
[edit]entrap (third-person singular simple present entraps, present participle entrapping, simple past and past participle entrapped)
- (transitive) To catch in a trap or snare.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
- Then noble ſouldiers to intrap these theeues […]
We haue our Cammels laden al with gold:
Which you that be but common ſouldiers,
Shall fling in euery corner of the field:
And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp,
You […] Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189:
- He goes home to complain to his father, and the two of them decide on a plan to entrap Enkidu.
- (transitive) To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.
Usage notes
[edit]Entrap is a more intense form of trap: see en-.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]catch something in a trap
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lure someone
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