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US
/ɪnˈtɹæp/
]
[ UK /ɛntɹˈæp/ ]
[ UK /ɛntɹˈæp/ ]
VERB
-
catch in or as if in a trap
The men trap foxes -
take or catch as if in a snare or trap
The innocent man was framed by the police
I was set up!
How To Use entrap In A Sentence
- She kept on struggling to loose herself, groping ineffectually at the deadfall that had entrapped her. SLEEP WHILE I SING
- Result: The sword-like needle therapy is very effective to cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome of the waist and buttock.
- And that's another difference: Kate's e-mail "entrapped" Kinsella; Warman's e-mails aren't as subtle -- he doesn't entrap people into uttering racist remarks, he outright plants those racist remarks himself. Kate McMillan's prank - Ezra Levant
- Welcome to the ‘surveillance society’, where the police can bug, wire-tap and even entrap you in the name of law and order.
- This time (due next week with #2) I am totally contemplating the buzzcut for myself just to avoid hair entrapment again. The Grabbing Hands, Grab All They Can | Her Bad Mother
- The lower bands would cut tax for the less well-off, but the new higher bands would entrap many middle-class households, simply because house price inflation has increased the value of their homes.
- Intravenous fluid loading before, during, and after rescue may protect against a catastrophic fall in blood pressure that can follow sudden release after prolonged entrapment.
- Nobody seems interested in destroying, once and for all, the vicious circle in which this "vagary" of international fraud entraps us. January 2006
- Five people found themselves on the wrong side of a door equipped with a faulty Stanley lockset and one reported becoming entrapped inside. Locks that won’t unlock recalled by Stanley Security
- With the canopy of a star-spangled sky, the frozen stillness of stone entrapping centuries of history, and the soft sound of the waters, it is truly an experience that belongs to the realm of the unforgettable.