Entrap

Definitions: Entrap

Entrap

Verb

1. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police".

2. Catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes".

Date "entrap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Entrap \En*trap"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Entrapped; present participle verb or noun Entrapping.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Entrap

Synonyms: ensnare (v), frame (v), set up (v), snare (v), trammel (v), trap (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deception	Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Entrap

English words defined with "entrap": Attrap ♦ bait ♦ decoy, Dionaea muscipula ♦ entangle, Entrapped, Entrapping ♦ Illaqueate, insidious, insidiousness, Insnare, Intrap ♦ mire ♦ Nousle ♦ Trapan ♦ Venus's flytrap, Venus's flytraps. (references)

Specialty definitions using "entrap": bloating phenomena ♦ exclusion chromatography ♦ gel filtration chromatography, gel permeation chromatography ♦ Lying. (references)

"Entrap" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 86.96% of the time. "Entrap" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	86.96%	20	78,262
Lexical Verb (base form)	13.04%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "entrap": re-entrap.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "entrap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zë në kurth (ensnare, entangle), zë në grackë (ensnare, trap), ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper, tie up). (various references)

Arabic		‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏إحتبل, ‏إصطاد (go gunning for, gun, gun for, hunt, shoot). (various references)

Bulgarian		улавям (catch, catch out, clutch, detect, get, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, mesh, pick up), хващам в клопка, впримчвам (decoy, ensnare, implicate, mesh, noose, snare, vamp), задържам (apprehend, arrest, can, contain, detain, deter, hold, hold back, hold off, hold over, hold up, immobilize, inhibit, keep, keep away, keep back, keep down, occlude, press back, reserve, restrain, retain, trig). (various references)

Chinese		坑害 (Entrapped, Entrapping). (various references)

Czech		polapit (ensnare, snap up, snatch up). (various references)

Farsi		گول زدن (Bamboozle, Beguile, Cajole, Cheat, Con, Deceive, Defraud, Doodle, Dupe, Fool, Gaff, Gouge, Gull, Gum, Gyp, Hoax, Hustle, Jockey, Outwit, Rogue, Swindle, Wheedle), تله انداختن , اغفال کردن (Beguile, Blind, Deceive, Delude, Hoodwink), بدام انداختن (Decoy, Ensnare, Hook, Inveigle, Nail, Snare, Trap, Trepanation). (various references)

French		supplier (entreat), prendre au piège (ensnare). (various references)

German		verstricken (embroil, ensnare, entangle, mix up, use), fangen (bag, captivate, capture, catch, cope, fish job, fishing, fishing job, grapple, lock-on, malicious call identification, net, snare, tag, take, to catch, to trap, trap, trick). (various references)

Greek		παγιδεύω (ensnare, gin, snare, to hang-up, to lodge, trap). (various references)

Hebrew		ללכו�" (capture, catch, hook, hunt down, track down, trap). (various references)

Hungarian		tõrbe csal (decoy, trap), csapdába ejt (ambush, decoy, to trap, trap). (various references)

Indonesian		menjerat (bagged, enmesh, ensnare). (various references)

Italian		intrappolare (catch, ensnare, entangle, snare, trap, trepan), imbrogliare (cheat, cozen, diddle, do, embroil, entangle, fob, fool, garble, get confused, get entangled, get tangled, hocus, mix up, mystify, overreach, rook, sell, spoof, swindle, tangle, trick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		人�'陥れる (to entrap a person), 封じ込む (to entrap). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひと�'おとしいれる (to entrap a person), ふうじ�"む (to entrap). (various references)

Korean		모함하십시�". (various references)

Pig Latin		entrapay

Portuguese		aprendiz (apprentice, devil, improver, learner, novice, preoccupated, recruit, trainee, tyro). (various references)

Russian		поймать в ловушку (catch, ensnare). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uhvatiti u klopku (trap), dovesti u nepriliku (hot for). (various references)

Spanish		entrampar (burden with debts, ensnare, mess up, to burden with debts, to charge with debts, to encumber with debts, trap). (various references)

Swedish		snara (ensnare, gin, halter, hook, loop, noose, snare, springe, trap), snärja (ensnare, snare, trap), lura (bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, dupe, euchre, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hoax, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, impose, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle, trick), förleda (betray, delude, entice, lead on, mislead, seduce, tempt, wheedle), fänga i fälla. (various references)

Turkish		yakalamak (account, bag, catch, catch hold of, catch up on, claw hold of, clutch, collar, cop, embrace, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nobble, overtake, pinch, pull up to, seize, seize on, snap up, snatch, tackle, take, take up, trap), tuzağa düşürmek (ambuscade, circumvent, decoy, enmesh, ensnare, gin, mesh, net, snare, springe, trammel, trap), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile). (various references)

Ukranian		спіймати у пастку (ensnare), обманути (circumvent, have on). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old English	450-1100	besyrwan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "entrap": entrapment, entrapments, entrapped, entrapping, entraps. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Entrap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: antra, engraph, enra, enrap, enta, entar, entr, entra, entrar, entray, entrep, entrepy, Entrim, entripy, entro, entrop, entroph, entropt, Etap, etra, extrap, gentra, intrap, ketjap, ontra, sentra, untra. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "entrap" (pronounced entra"p)
4	-t r a" p	strap, trap.
3	-r a" p	crap, frap, rap, scrap, unwrap, wrap.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: arpent, enrapt, parent, trepan.
	Words within the letters "a-e-n-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: antre, apter, arpen, paten, pater, peart, prate, taper.
	-2 letters: ante, aper, earn, etna, nape, neap, near, neat, pane, pant, pare, part, pate, pean, pear, peat, pent, pert, prat, rant, rape, rapt, rate, reap, rent, tape, tare, tarn, tarp, tear, tepa, tern, trap.
	-3 letters: ane, ant, ape, apt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-n-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: arpents, entraps, operant, painter, panther, parents, partner, pastern, pattern, pertain, planter, pronate, protean, repaint, replant, reptant, trepang, trepans.
	+2 letters: antirape, aperient, apparent, atropine, catnaper, coparent, dipteran, interlap, operants, painters, paintier, panthers, pantries, parament, parental, parented, parlante, partaken, partners, pasterns, patentor, paternal, patterns, pedantry, pentarch, perianth, permeant, pertains, pinaster, plankter, planters, portance, preenact, pregnant, prenatal, preplant, pretrain, pristane, pronated, pronates, proteans, raptness, repaints, replants, retaping, tapering, terrapin, transept, trapline, trapnest, trappean, trepangs, triplane, triptane, unparted.
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