snare

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English snare, from Old English snearu, sneare (a string; cord), from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (a sling; loop; noose). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.

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snare (plural snares)

Bird caught in a snare
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Drum fitted with snare wires
  1. A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
    • 1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear[1], London: Heinemann, published 1960, Book Three, Chapter One, pp. 196-197:
      He [] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare.
    • 2013, Richard Flanagan, chapter 18, in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, New York: Knopf, published 2014, page 332:
      He felt a snare tightening around his throat; he gasped and threw a leg out of the bed, where it jerked for a second or two, thumping the steel frame, and died.
  2. A mental or psychological trap.
  3. (veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
  4. (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
  5. (music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin of a drum to create a rattling sound.
  6. (music) A snare drum.

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Verb[edit]

snare (third-person singular simple present snares, present participle snaring, simple past and past participle snared)

  1. (transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.
    • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, []”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
      The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC:
      Lest that too heavenly form [] snare them.
    • 2023 September 29, Adam Seth Litwin, “Want to Save Your Job From A.I.? Hollywood Screenwriters Just Showed You How.”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
      Instead, it aimed for a more important assurance: that if A.I. raises writers’ productivity or the quality of their output, guild members should snare an equitable share of the performance gains. And the W.G.A. got it.
  2. (transitive, figurative) To ensnare.

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Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English sneare, snearu, from Proto-West Germanic *snarhā, from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ.

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snare (plural snares)

  1. A trap for catching animals.
  2. A noose or snare (rope loop)
  3. (figuratively) A temptation or peril.
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  • English: snare
  • Scots: snare
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snare

  1. Alternative form of snaren

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse snara.

Noun[edit]

snare f or m (definite singular snara or snaren, indefinite plural snarer, definite plural snarene)

  1. a snare
  2. a trap
    Synonym: felle

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snare (present tense snarer, past tense snara or snaret, past participle snara or snaret)

  1. (transitive) to catch in a snare

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective[edit]

snare

  1. inflection of snar:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse snara (a snare), from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ. Cognate with English snare.

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snare f (definite singular snara, indefinite plural snarer, definite plural snarene)

  1. a snare
  2. a trap
    Synonym: felle
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snare (present tense snarar, past tense snara, past participle snara, passive infinitive snarast, present participle snarande, imperative snare/snar)

  1. (transitive) to catch in a snare
  2. (transitive) to ensnare

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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snare

  1. inflection of snar:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

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Swedish[edit]

Adjective[edit]

snare

  1. definite natural masculine singular of snar

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