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Webster 1913 Edition

Entrap

En-trap′

,
Verb.
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
.
Syn. – To insnare; inveigle; tangle; decoy; entangle.

Webster 1828 Edition

Entrap

ENTRAP'

,
Verb.
T.
To catch as in a trap; to insnare; used chiefly or wholly in a figurative sense. To catch by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to entangle; to catch or involve in contradictions; in short, to involve in any difficulties from which an escape is not easy or possible. We are entrapped by the devices of evil men. We are sometimes entrapped in our own words.

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