(v. t.) To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.
(v. t.) To put trappings on; to clothe; to deck.
Example Sentences:
Ensnare
Definition:
(v. t.) To catch in a snare. See Insnare.
Example Sentences:
(1) The deal would clarify trade rules that currently ensnare businesses large and small in red tape and arguably make trading in the Pacific rim far easier.
(2) Brazil’s corruption crackdown is welcome The arrest of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva could mark the beginning of the end of a political and financial crisis that has ensnared politicians and plunged the economy into recession.
(3) This is in part due to sweeping US counter-terrorism laws that have, until recently, been ensnaring Syrians who pose no threat.
(4) The court orders cast a data net so wide as to ensnare virtually all digital communications originating from or sent to the three.
(5) EU competition law might ensnare the NHS and prevent any successor from undoing Lansley's market reforms – but it will not save his bacon.
(6) It’s sort of as you cross a chasm on a tightrope your muscles tense up.” Li Jiamei, the youngest of two children, had just started her summer holidays when she became ensnared in the unforgiving world of Chinese politics.
(7) These ensnared enemies can be brought into the game as controllable characters by reinserting the Trap element into the portal.
(8) No doubt Boehner’s successor, be it current House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (the odds-on favorite), or a more intransigent Tea Party true believer like Mike Labrador, the Idaho legislator who went gunning for McCarthy’s job in the last leadership vote, will become ensnared in the same impossible conundrum when a government shutdown looms over, I don’t know, the War on Christmas.
(9) Failure of retrieval occurred only in specially difficult circumstances; when a catheter embolized to the pulmonary artery of a Tetralogy of Fallot, and when in spite of successful ensnarement, a fractured electrode was firmly adherent to the right ventricular apex.
(10) Stephen K Amos Stephen K Amos: 'Last year it was the solo plays that ensnared me.'
(11) The nation is now ensnared in a sixth straight year of recession with unemployment at a European high of 27%.
(12) Amanda Kimbrough is one of the women who have been ensnared as a result of the law being applied in a wholly different way.
(13) "You developed and perfected a web of deceit that was sufficient to ensnare young, intelligent and sensible women who had enjoyed a night out and whose only mistake, as it turned out, was to get into your cab late at night."
(14) While he and his wife were there preparing for the move, the state of Kansas took five of their children, ages 5 to 16, into custody on suspicion of child endangerment, ensnaring his family in interstate marijuana politics.
(15) More visibly, the Camorra famously adopted – or ensnared – Diego Maradona (who played for Napoli in his heyday) as its mascot, and thereby victim, befriending the genius striker, moving in on his merchandise – and furnishing him with women and drugs.
(16) Other complications included a silent free perforation, a snare-wire entrapment, and an ensnared bowel wall.
(17) Judging by recent coverage, Japan is in the midst of a marijuana epidemic that is ensnaring everyone from students to suburban housewives and sumo wrestlers.
(18) Davutoğlu also argued with Erdoğan over the pre-trial detention of journalists charged with insulting the president, an offence that has ensnared hundreds of people since 2014.
(19) This time they went to the body itself.” There are suspicions that the raid could lead to ECRF being ensnared in the ongoing crackdown on NGOs in Egypt , reviving an infamous case from 2011 which accuses it of receiving illegal foreign funds.
(20) "The way Paxman treated Chloe was bit like a giant cat playing with, and then ensnaring, a tiny mouse.