What's the difference between enmesh and ensnare?

Enmesh


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
  • (2) Any family seen to be "enmeshed" is also seen as "fused," and vice versa.
  • (3) Unpleasure prevailed during the symbiotic phase; aggressive energies predominated and enmeshed with the neuronal encoding, the early structuralization in both the neurophysiological and psychological meaning.
  • (4) This ad hoc response to a moment of crisis was buttressed by successive laws that, in order to exclude a Stuart succession, enmeshed monarchy with the Church of England, thus fanning a religious hostility the rest of Europe was already growing beyond.
  • (5) Artificial plaque enmeshed in the gauze was treated four times per day for four days with an enzyme-dependent mineralizing solution, resulting in 20-, 10-, and 200-fold increases in Ca, P, and F, respectively.
  • (6) Examples are used to illustrate how consultation with friends can bridge generation gaps, provide positive peer pressure, foster increased perspective-taking and empathy for all members of the family, challenge family enmeshment, provide support for the client in the therapeutic process, and provide helpful child-management suggestions to parents based on the friends' experiences.
  • (7) Similar reactivity for factor VIII-related antigen was present in 14 cases, but was largely restricted to cells enmeshed in fibrin-platelet thrombi, and probably represents adsorption of platelet-derived factor VIII by tumor cells.
  • (8) EnMesh was designed to provide an informal learning resource within an established clinical course.
  • (9) The small, vesicle-associated filaments appear to link synaptic vesicles to one another and to enmesh them in the vicinity of the synaptic junction.
  • (10) It does not matter if we find ourselves enmeshed in a war with China, or scrambling to respond to an unprecedentedly devastating terrorist attack.
  • (11) Low-alcohol-content fermented beverages are thoroughly enmeshed in the social, economic, commensal, and cosmological spheres of life among most peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.
  • (12) Groups D and E served as nondrug-treated controls, with group D receiving topical fibrin-enmeshed liposomes devoid of tobramycin and group E receiving hourly topical balanced salt solution (BSS) drops.
  • (13) We studied the efficacy of a single topical administration of tobramycin incorporated in large multivesicular liposomes and enmeshed in a fibrin sealant on rabbit corneas infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
  • (14) The large thrombotic masses disappeared as soon as the administration of ADP was stopped, leaving behind small remnants which, like the initial thrombi, were predominantly composed of enmeshing substance and could be stimulated to renewed growth by resuming the administration of ADP.
  • (15) We have always maintained that the company has never provided any funds to the prime minister.” The prime minister established 1MDB in 2009 but over recent years it has become enmeshed in almost $US11bn in debt and has drawn criticism over its lack of transparency.
  • (16) The C5b-9 complexes were localized in intact cells, disintegrated cells and cell debris enmeshed in the connective tissue matrix.
  • (17) The cast of each papillary unit consisted of a central artery and vein enmeshed in a sheath of fine capillaries.
  • (18) On the campaign trail, Trump unfailingly tarred Clinton as compromised by, and enmeshed with, Wall Street and its mega banks.
  • (19) Leaders from the Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners council, who are enmeshed in a legal and lobbying effort to head off Adani’s Carmichael mine, will collaborate with academics and human rights lawyers for the first “flagship” project chosen by UQ’s Global Change Institute.
  • (20) Factors indicating more specific risk for suicide include escalating stress, family enmeshment, and major mental illness, particularly major depressive disorder.

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.