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insnare

insnare is the alternative spelling of ensnare.

Meaning of ensnare

Verb

ensnare (third-person singular simple present ensnares, present participle ensnaring, simple past and past participle ensnared)

  1. To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap.
    • Let theſe / Inſnare the vvretched in the toils of lavv, / Fomenting diſcord, and perplexing right, / An iron race!a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 160, lines 1289–1292
  2. (figuratively) To entangle; to enmesh.
    • But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion

Forms of insnare

third-person singular presentinsnares
present participleinsnaring
past participleinsnared
pastinsnared

Origin of insnare

From in- + snare.

Words formed from insnare

Questions about insnare

What is insnare the alternative spelling of?
Insnare is the alternative spelling of ensnare.

Words near insnare in the dictionary

  1. insleepers
  2. Insley
  3. Insleys
  4. inslope
  5. insn
  6. insnare
  7. insnared
  8. insnarer
  9. insnarers
  10. insnares
  11. insnaring

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