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Snare   /snɛr/   Listen
Snare

noun
1.
Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.  Synonym: trap.  "It was all a snare and delusion"
2.
A small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head.  Synonyms: side drum, snare drum.
3.
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.
4.
Strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit.
5.
A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose.  Synonyms: gin, noose.
verb
(past & past part. snared; pres. part. snaring)
1.
Catch in or as if in a trap.  Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, trammel, trap.
2.
Entice and trap.  Synonym: hook.



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"Snare" Quotes from Famous Books



... enough." Thence home, and I ended and sent away my letter to Mr. Coventry (having first read it and had the opinion of Sir W. Warren in the case), and so home to supper and to bed, my cold being pretty well gone, but my eye remaining still snare and rhumey, which I wonder at, my right ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... full flushing victory Brings hope, and joy is ringing everywhere Beneath the "starry banner of the free," That shields her children from the tyrant's snare. The peasant turns him to his lowly fare, The rich pursues wild phantoms at his ease, The rustic plies his long-forsaken share, And lo! the dove is cooing, "Peace, sweet peace;" For Mars has snatched his bolts from out ...
— The Sylvan Cabin - A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse • Edward Smyth Jones
... every nerve in his body quivering with wrath, the proud, unhappy boy strode through the gay streets. They had betrayed him then, these accursed Beauforts! they circled his steps with schemes to drive him like a deer into the snare of their loathsome charity! The roof was to be taken from his head—the bread from his lips—so that he might fawn at their knees for bounty. "But they shall not break my spirit, nor steal away my curse. ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 2 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... obtained all that he wanted. Most of the money that they advanced has been to men that I sent. They drew on us for the money and sent us various securities of their own, holding the securities of these applicants. It is simply bewildering to think how easily that scoundrel fell into the snare." ...
— Cord and Creese • James de Mille
... gently in and out and say tenderly, "Hadna the bairns better come awa to their beds?" and the old man would answer, "Bide a bit, Jenny, woman," for he thought every such hour was building up a counter influence against the snare of ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr


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