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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsnare, fromOld Englishsnearu(“snare, noose”), fromProto-West Germanic*snarhā, fromProto-Germanic*snarhǭ(“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate withOld Norsesnara. Also related to GermanSchnur and Dutchsnaar,snoer.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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snare (pluralsnares)

Bird caught in a snare
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Drum fitted with snare wires
  1. Atrap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
    • 1943,Graham Greene,The Ministry of Fear‎[1], London: Heinemann, published1960, Book Three, Chapter One, pp. 196-197:
      He[…] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbitsnare.
    • 2013,Richard Flanagan, chapter 18, inThe Narrow Road to the Deep North, New York: Knopf, published2014,page332:
      He felt asnare 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. Amental orpsychological trap.
  3. (veterinary) A loop of cord used inobstetric cases, to hold or to pull afetus from the mother animal.
  4. (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
  5. (music) A set of stiffwires held undertension against the bottom head of adrum to create a rattling sound.
  6. (music) Asnare drum.

Translations

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trap
mental trap
veterinary: obstetric loop
music: set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum
music: type of drum

Verb

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snare (third-person singular simple presentsnares,present participlesnaring,simple past and past participlesnared)

  1. (transitive) Tocatch or hold, especially with a loop.
    • c.1596–1599 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene i]:
      The mournful crocodile / With sorrowsnares relenting passengers.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise 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.”, inThe 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 shouldsnare an equitable share of the performance gains. And the W.G.A. got it.
  2. (transitive, figurative) Toensnare.

Translations

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to catch or hold, especially with a loop

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Danish

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsesnara(“a snare”), fromProto-Germanic*snarhǭ. Cognate withEnglishsnare.

Noun

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snare c (singular definitesnaren,plural indefinitesnarer)

  1. snare
    Synonym:fælde
  2. (figurative) atrap,trick or anything else that can harm people

Declension

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Declension ofsnare
common
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativesnaresnarensnarersnarerne
genitivesnaressnarenssnarerssnarernes

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Englishsnearu, fromProto-West Germanic*snarhā, fromProto-Germanic*snarhǭ.

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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snare (pluralsnares)

  1. Atrap for catching animals.
  2. Anoose orsnare(rope loop)
  3. (figuratively) Atemptation orperil.
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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snare

  1. Alternative form ofsnaren

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Norsesnara.

Noun

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snare f orm (definite singularsnaraorsnaren,indefinite pluralsnarer,definite pluralsnarene)

  1. asnare
  2. atrap
    Synonym:felle

Verb

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snare (present tensesnarer,past tensesnaraorsnaret,past participlesnaraorsnaret)

  1. (transitive) to catch in asnare

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Adjective

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snare

  1. inflection ofsnar:
    1. definitesingular
    2. plural

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Norsesnara(“a snare”), fromProto-Germanic*snarhǭ. Cognate withEnglishsnare.

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Noun

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snare f (definite singularsnara,indefinite pluralsnarer,definite pluralsnarene)

  1. asnare
  2. atrap
    Synonym:felle
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Verb

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snare (present tensesnarar,past tensesnara,past participlesnara,passive infinitivesnarast,present participlesnarande,imperativesnare/snar)

  1. (transitive) tocatch in asnare
  2. (transitive) toensnare

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Adjective

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snare

  1. inflection ofsnar:
    1. definitesingular
    2. plural

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Swedish

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Adjective

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snare

  1. definitenatural masculinesingular ofsnar

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