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entrap

/ɪnˈtɹæp/

entrap verb: to catch in a trap or snare.

Verb

entrap (third-person singular simple present entraps, present participle entrapping, simple past and past participle entrapped)

  1. (transitive) To catch in a trap or snare.
    • Then noble ſouldiers to intrap these theeues […]
      We haue our Cammels laden al with gold:
      Which you that be but common ſouldiers,
      Shall fling in euery corner of the field:
      And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp,
      You […] Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    • He goes home to complain to his father, and the two of them decide on a plan to entrap Enkidu.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189
  2. (transitive) To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.

entrap meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

entrap in Tamil

சிக்க வை, பொறியிலகப் படுத்து

entrap in Urdu

دام میں لانا, پھانس لینا, پھانسنا, شکار کرنا

entrap in Bengali

ফাঁদে ফেলা, প্রলোভিত করা

entrap in Malayalam

ensnare, trap, snare
കെണിയിലാക്കുക, അകപ്പെടുത്തുക, കുടുക്കുക, കുരുക്കുവച്ചു പിടിക്കുക, കെണിയിൽ പെടുത്തുക, കുടുക്കിലാക്കുക
lure, entice, inveigle
കെണിയിലാക്കുക, വശീകരിക്ക, മോഹിപ്പിക്കുക, ആശകാട്ടിമോഹിപ്പിക്കുക, വലയിട്ടു പിടിക്കുക, മയക്കുക
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entrap in Kannada
ಬಲೆಗೆ ಬೀಳಿಸು, ಬೋನಿಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿಸು, ಮರುಳುಗೊಳಿಸು, ದಾರಿ ತಪ್ಪಿಸು

Examples of entrap in a sentence

  • In the hepatocyte transplantation model, DPPIV-positive hepatocytes entrapped periportally proliferated, and formed two-layered plates along portal veins.
  • Some of my best friends have been entrapped and busted by the fuzz.
  • This is the insidious way sports entrap you: you follow a player, which commits you to his team.

All 12 example sentences with entrap

Synonyms of entrap

Forms of entrap

third-person singular presententraps
present participleentrapping
past participleentrapped
pastentrapped

Past tense of entrap: entrapped

Origin of entrap

From Middle French entrapper, entraper, from Old French entraper, antraper (“catch in a trap”), equivalent to en- + trap. Compare Middle English bitrappen, from Old English betræppan (“to catch in a trap, entrap”), from the same West Germanic source (see Modern English betrap).

Words formed from entrap

Words that rhyme with entrap

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Questions about entrap

What does entrap mean?
Entrap means to catch in a trap or snare.
What is entrap in Tamil?
Entrap in Tamil is சிக்க வை, பொறியிலகப் படுத்து. See Entrap meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is entrap?
Entrap is a verb.
How do you pronounce entrap?
Entrap is pronounced /ɪnˈtɹæp/.
What is the past tense of entrap?
The past tense of entrap is entrapped.

Words near entrap in the dictionary

  1. Entrange
  2. entransies
  3. entransy
  4. entrant
  5. entrants
  6. entrap
  7. entrapment
  8. entrapments
  9. entrapped
  10. entrapper
  11. entrappers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: entrap (page history and authors); entrap (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entrap (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Entrap (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entrap (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); entrap (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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