snare
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/icons/point.icon CATCH, CAPTURE, TRAP, SNARE, ENTRAP, ENSNARE, BAG mean to come to possess or control by or as if by seizing.
CATCH implies the seizing of something in motion or in flight or in hiding.
e.g. caught the dog as it ran by
CAPTURE suggests taking by overcoming resistance or difficulty.
e.g. capture an enemy stronghold
TRAP, SNARE, ENTRAP, ENSNARE imply seizing by some device that holds the one caught at the mercy of the captor.
TRAP and SNARE apply more commonly to physical seizing.
e.g. trap animals
e.g. snared butterflies with a net
ENTRAP and ENSNARE more often are figurative.
e.g. entrapped the witness with a trick question
e.g. a sting operation that ensnared burglars
BAG implies shooting down a fleeing or distant prey.
e.g. bagged a brace of pheasants
noun
1. a trap for catching birds or animals, typically one having a noose of wire or cord.
わな〘動物の脚などを縄で締める仕掛けのもの; → trap1, pitfall 〙
a thing likely to lure or tempt someone into harm or error:
｟かたく｠ (人を陥れる)誘惑, わな
e.g. the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
2. a length of wire, gut, or hide stretched across a drumhead to produce a rattling sound.
(スネアドラムの)さわり弦, 響き線.
short for snare drum.
〘楽〙 (下面にさわり弦を張った)小太鼓, スネアドラム(snare drum)
3. Surgery a wire loop for severing polyps or other growths.
〘医〙 (できものを切除する)係蹄, 絞断器
verb with object
catch (a bird or mammal) in a snare.
〈動物〉をわなに掛ける, わなに掛けて捕らえる.
catch or trap (someone):
〈人〉を誘惑のわなに掛ける, 誘い込む, 陥れる
e.g. I snared a passing waiter.
DERIVATIVES
snarer |ˈsnerər| noun
ORIGIN
late Old English sneare, from Old Norse snara. snare (sense 2 of the noun) is probably from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch snare ‘harp string’.