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Ensnaring vs. Snare — What's the Difference?

Ensnaring vs. Snare — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ensnaring and Snare

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Ensnaring

To take or catch in or as if in a snare; trap.

Snare

A trap for catching birds or mammals, typically one having a noose of wire or cord.

Ensnaring

Present participle of ensnare

Snare

A length of wire, gut, or hide stretched across a drumhead to produce a rattling sound.

Ensnaring

That ensnares or traps.
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Snare

A wire loop for severing polyps or other growths.

Snare

Catch (a bird or mammal) in a snare
The foxes were humanely snared

Snare

A trapping device, often consisting of a noose, used for capturing birds and small mammals.

Snare

Something that lures or entangles the unwary
The snares of merchandisers.
The snare of debt.

Snare

A surgical instrument with a wire loop controlled by a mechanism in the handle, used to remove growths, such as tumors and polyps.

Snare

Any of the wires or cords stretched across the lower drumhead of a snare drum so as to vibrate against it.

Snare

A snare drum.

Snare

To trap with or as if with a snare.

Snare

To get hold or control of (something difficult to catch)
The fielder snared the ground ball.

Snare

A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).

Snare

A mental or psychological trap.

Snare

(veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.

Snare

(surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.

Snare

(music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin of a drum to create a rattling sound.

Snare

(music) A snare drum.

Snare

(transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.

Snare

To ensnare.

Snare

A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.

Snare

Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.
If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.

Snare

The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

Snare

An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.

Snare

To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.
Lest that too heavenly form . . . snare them.
The mournful crocodileWith sorrow snares relenting passengers.

Snare

Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares;
The exam was full of trap questions
It was all a snare and delusion

Snare

A small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head

Snare

A surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities

Snare

Strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit

Snare

A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose

Snare

Catch in or as if in a trap;
The men trap foxes

Snare

Entice and trap;
The car salesman had snared three potential customers

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