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ENTRAP
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Irregular inflected forms: entrapped , entrapping
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they entrap ... he / she / it entraps
Past simple: entrapped
Past participle: entrapped
-ing form: entrapping
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)
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)
