ENTRAP (entrapped, entrapping)

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Irregular inflected forms: entrapped    , entrapping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does entrap mean? 

• ENTRAP (verb)
  The verb ENTRAP has 2 senses:

1. take or catch as if in a snare or trap

2. catch in or as if in a trap

  Familiarity information: ENTRAP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTRAP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they entrap    ... he / she / it entraps   
Past simple: entrapped   
Past participle: entrapped   
-ing form: entrapping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take or catch as if in a snare or trap

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

ensnare; entrap; frame; set up

Context example:

The innocent man was framed by the police

Hypernyms (to "entrap" is one way to...):

cozen; deceive; delude; lead on (be false to; be dishonest with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to entrap the prisoners

Derivation:

entrapment (a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Catch in or as if in a trap

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

ensnare; entrap; snare; trammel; trap

Context example:

The men trap foxes

Hypernyms (to "entrap" is one way to...):

capture; catch (capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping)

Domain category:

hunt; hunting (the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "entrap"):

gin (trap with a snare)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Secreted IgA promotes immune exclusion by entrapping dietary antigens and microorganisms in the mucus and functions for neutralization of toxins and pathogenic microbes.

(Intestinal IgA Production Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Miss Woodhouse made the proper acquiescence; and finding that nothing more was to be entrapped from any communication of Mrs. Cole's, turned to Frank Churchill.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A breast hamartoma characterized by the presence of brown fat that contains entrapped glands.

(Breast Adenohibernoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The cilia beat in unison (about 1,000 strokes per minute) and in a wave-like fashion, thereby propelling mucus and entrapped foreign material toward the oropharynx for expectoration or swallowing.

(Ciliated Bronchial Epithelial Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A biodegradable poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(D,L-lactide) copolymer micelle nanoparticle-entrapped formulation of paclitaxel with antineoplastic activity.

(Paclitaxel-loaded polymeric micelle, NCI Thesaurus)

“You villain,” said I, “what do you mean by entrapping me into your schemes? How dare you appeal to me just now, you false rascal, as if we had been in discussion together?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A breast hamartoma characterized by the presence of adipose tissue that contains entrapped glands.

(Breast Adenolipoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A yell of exultation, and a forest of waving steel through the length and breadth of their column, announced that they could at last see their entrapped enemies, while the swelling notes of a hundred bugles and drums, mixed with the clash of Moorish cymbals, broke forth into a proud peal of martial triumph.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This girl, he continued, looking at me, knew no more than you, 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!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I could have thrown my bootjack at him (it lay ready on the rug), for having entrapped me into the disclosure of anything concerning Agnes, however immaterial.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)