Crossword clues for entrap
entrap
- Lure into wrongdoing
- Catch cunningly
- Trick into wrongdoing
- Lure into a snare
- Tempt into wrongdoing
- Tempt into crime
- Lure into an illegal act
- Lure and snare
- Trick into committing a crime
- Take in a sting
- Run a sting on
- Nab in a sting
- Catch in a way
- Antonym of release
- Trick into doing wrong
- Put in a hopeless spot
- Produce a sting?
- Parent (anag)
- Offer drugs to, perhaps
- Nab through a sting operation
- Lure, in a way
- Lure via a sting
- Lure into illegality
- Lure into committing a crime
- Lure illicitly
- Lure illegally
- Lure and nab
- Lure and catch
- Frame — stitch up
- Dupe into danger
- Deceive — lead on
- Deceitfully incriminate
- Catch during a sting
- Catch deceptively
- Catch craftily
- Catch — frame
- Draw into wrongdoing
- Bag
- Catch slyly
- Gin
- Lure into crime
- Snare
- Catch in a sting operation, perhaps
- Bait
- Nab in a sting operation
- Lure into a crime
- Lure into lawbreaking
- Beguile
- Corner
- Capture
- Lure into danger
- Set up a sting
- Tangle; snare
- Catch, spider style
- Inveigle
- Catch some violent rapscallions
- Catch parent out
- Catch in a snare
- Catch (in a snare)
- Seduce mate almost entirely the wrong way
- Net of hospital department charge
- Frame - stitch up
- Husband, perhaps, scratching bottom then looking up to seduce
- Hospital department facing rebuke for trick
- Doubles player, with back gone, retires, giving set up
- Deceive - lead on
- Set up for a fall
- Lead on
- Rope in
- Box in
- Lure into trouble
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entrap \En*trap"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entrapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Entrapping.] [Pref. en- + trap: cf. OF. entraper.] To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.
A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men.
--Shak.
Syn: To insnare; inveigle; tangle; decoy; entangle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To catch something in a trap or snare. 2 (context transitive English) To lure someone, either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.
WordNet
Usage examples of "entrap".
He determined to plead guilty to murder at his trial, and then to make a declaration that he had entrapped Lady Molly into a marriage, knowing at the time that a warrant was out for his arrest, and hoping, by his connection with the Earl of Flintshire, to obtain a certain amount of leniency.
Gemini killings were confined to San Francisco and had spanned a range of seven years from 1964 to 1971, when the Gemini was killed by a rain of bullets while climbing a girder of the Golden Gate Bridge, where the police had entrapped him after countless failed attempts.
Now he could see that it was Jehu, the young man diving beneath them all, tearing away at the main tangle of nets, towing them a little distance off to remove the risk of all of them becoming entrapped.
They keep on preaching that pederasty is comparatively unknown and entraps only a few, but many clever men endeavour to be entrapped, and end by thinking it so pleasant that they prefer these monsters to the most beautiful women.
Cohn one evening into water swarming with crustaceans, and by the next morning most of the bladders contained these animals entrapped and swimming round and round their prisons.
Wood, of the disgusting secret: she thought all was fair and legal and never dreamt she was going to be entrapped into a feigned union with a defrauded wretch, already bound to a bad, mad, and embruted partner!
Colney left the whole body of concurrents on the raised flooring of a famous New York Hall, clearly entrapped, and incited to debate before an enormous audience, as to the merits of their respective languages.
I've put in food and a little flask of cloudberry brandy for emergenciesbut you will need a clear, keen head if you're to entrap my lord Stavyor.
Authors even wrote books on how to dance around scip questions, until ATI had issued simple instructions, known as the “Thacker Guidelines,” on how to entrap evasive answerers.
To capture Ibn Asl and all his companions in his iniquitous trade by entrapping them!
He was pursued, entrapped, precipitated from heights, burned, flayed, bowstringed, vermin-covered, devoured.
They quickly surmise that Chillas is pushing Big H, entrap him, and nail the endomorph for the murder of Phil's best friend.
These experienced governmental clericals would, like his experienced governmental security, fling their knowledge between the paidhi and the dedicated number-counters who sometimes sent letters specifically designed to entrap the paidhi into numerically infelicitous statements, which they, in the perverse self-importance of such experts, could then term significant.
Oftimes their sundry powres they did employ,And seuerall deceipts, but all in vaine:For neither they by force could him destroy,Ne yet entrap in treasons subtill traine.
The goal is to open the path toward a new sociology, one which escapes the narrow boundaries of Durkheimian, Weberian and Marxist concepts, theories that have proven invaluable to the study of mass human behavior while simultaneously entrapping it in orthodoxy.