snare
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6.7
- noun
- /snɛr/
- Through what seems like 'many dangers, toils, and snares,' we see real progress on the Haitian legal front.
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Watch on YouTubeSo they literally set the gas light up like a trap, like a snare, and many people will walk into it.
- So they literally set the gas light up like a trap, like a snare, and many people will walk into it.
Examples
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Berdyaev, in his early days as a Marxist, saw politics as a snare and a delusion, a mask.
Academic text (1991) -
The normal human defense against that assault is to turn religion into an impossible snare of rules and bargaining chips.
Academic text (1994) -
His magic became a snare he could not escape.
Fiction book (1991) -
So they literally set the gas light up like a trap, like a snare, and many people will walk into it.
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At the least, a complex and challenging task, and at most, perhaps a snare.
Academic text (2003) -
Excellency, this is all a snare.
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So educationally, "open admissions" were a snare and a delusion.
Academic text (2000) -
At one point, they encountered a giant web concealed overhead, set like a snare to fall on whatever passed beneath.
Fiction book (1992) -
Janet moved faster, but the ground was lumpy and the bent-over grasses were like snares.
Fiction book (1991) -
The advertisement seemed harmless at first, but it turned out to be a snare that trapped many unsuspecting customers.
Synonyms
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2.0
A thing that catches and holds animals or tricks people
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6.4
The act of trapping people or animals with tricks and traps
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8.3
A situation in which someone is trapped by a trick or tool
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Etymology
Snare comes from the old English word snara meaning 'noose'. So a snare can be a situation that looks safe but 'catches' you, like a hidden trap or clever trick.