Snare

Noun

 * 1) A trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.
 * 2)  A mental or psychological trap; usually in the phrase a snare and a delusion.
 * 3) * 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
 * ...and I had now lived two years under this uneasiness, which, indeed, made my life much less comfortable than it was before, as may be well imagined by any who know what it is to live in the constant snare of the fear of man.
 * 1)  A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
 * 2)  A set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum to create a rattling sound.
 * 3)  A snare drum.

Verb

 * 1) to catch or hold, especially with a loop.

Adjectives for Snare
silken; wavering; female; alluring; sensual; treacherous; drowsing; harmless; opal; lying; elfish; marvelous; sentimental; cursed.

Verbs for Snare
bait—; decoy into—; entangle in—; escape —; lure into—; mend—; plant—; —attracts ; —deludes; —entices; —intrigues; —menaces; —tempts; —victimizes.

Thesaurus
abstract, allure, allurement, and, annex, appropriate, bag, bait, bait the hook, baited trap, birdlime, bola, bongo drum, boost, borrow, capture, catch, catch out, catch up, charm, chicane, chicanery, cobweb, come-on, conga, cop, crib, deception, decoy, decoy duck, defraud, dragnet, drawcard, drawing card, drum, drumhead, drumskin, drumstick, embezzle, embrangle, endearment, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarement, ensnarl, entangle, enticement, entoil, entrap, entrapment, enweb, extort, filch, fishhook, fly, foul, gill net, gin, ground bait, harpoon, hook, hook in, inveigle, inveiglement, involve, jazz stick, jig, kettle, kettledrum, land, lariat, lasso, lift, lime, lure, make off with, membranophone, mesh, meshes, nail, net, nip, noose, palm, pilfer, pinch, plug, poach, pound net, purloin, purse seine, rope, run away with, rustle, sack, scrounge, seduce, seducement, seine, seize, shoplift, side drum, snag, snare drum, snarl, snatch, sniggle, snitch, spear, spinner, spread the toils, springe, squid, steal, swindle, swipe, tabor, taboret, tabret, take, tam-tam, tambourine, tangle, tangle up with, tempt, temptation, tenor drum, thieve, timbrel, timpani, toils, tom-tom, trammel, trap, trawl, trip, troll-drum, tymp stick, tympan, tympanon, tympanum, walk off with, war drum, wind, wobbler

Noun

 * Armenian: թակարդ,, որոգայթ
 * Finnish: ansalanka
 * French: assommoir
 * Hebrew: פח
 * Irish:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:


 * Navajo:
 * Polish: sidła, pułapka
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: силок
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: snara


 * Finnish:


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish: virvelimatto


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * Portuguese: engodar – v.

Related terms

 * ensnare
 * snare drum

Anagrams

 * earns, nares, nears, RNase, saner