What's the difference between ensnare and snare?

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.

Snare


Definition:

  • (n.) A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.
  • (n.) Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.
  • (n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.
  • (n.) An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.
  • (v. t.) To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
  • (2) The effects of coronary reperfusion on the uptake of digoxin by ischemic myocardium were studied in 17 open chest dogs undergoing anterior wall infarction produced by snaring confluent branches of the left coronary arterial system.
  • (3) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
  • (4) Different grades of stenoses were created by snares.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Laura Cumming beside Velázquez’s Portrait of a Man at Apsley House, where John Snare would also have seen it.
  • (6) With the venae cavae snared, temperatures in the right atrial septum were not significantly different from those measured simultaneously in the right ventricle.
  • (7) In this artificial vessel (but not in a glass model) a snare stenosis caused reduction in flow when outflow pressure was lowered.
  • (8) Atrial preservation was ensured by combining systemic (24 degrees C) and topical hypothermia with snared double caval cannulation during arrest.
  • (9) In 2 patients the tumor was excised by snare, in 4 patients a surgical resection was carried out.
  • (10) So we looped them into the reel-to-reels and crowded round the speakers to hear what their album sounded like – but all we got was the clang of a snare drum.
  • (11) Our method of ER is endoscopic double snare polypectomy.
  • (12) But the experience of Royal Mail, which underwent a similar regime change some years ago, provides a chilling precedent of what aggressive regulators can do, and also of the snare that European competition laws potentially lay for public services when they are transformed into players in a market.
  • (13) Sky's snaring of Lumsden, holder of the most powerful job in British television comedy, and its move into a genre which is traditionally expensive and risky, follows bids by Sky1's director of programmes, Stuart Murphy, a former controller of BBC3, for established hits and talent from its terrestrial rivals.
  • (14) Occluding snares at T-13 limited the effect of raised pressure on the brain.
  • (15) Snare describes the portrait quite clearly: the young Charles with his large liquid eyes and pale face, appearing in three-quarter view without rigidity or outline, the painting as airy as mist (and the prince too young for Van Dyck, who only portrayed Charles in his 30s).
  • (16) After chest closure the common carotid arteries were exposed and immediately ligated or else catheter snares were installed to induce ischemia at a later date.
  • (17) A snare placed around the IA was used to unilaterally decrease renal arterial perfusion pressure (RAPP) for the experimental kidney.
  • (18) Mean aortic pressure was kept nearly constant during the interventions by manipulation of an aortic clamp or a vena caval snare.
  • (19) Graded reductions in uterine and umbilical blood flows were achieved by a hypogastric artery snare and a balloon cuff encircling the umbilical cord.
  • (20) During MVR with complete chordal preservation, snares were placed around the anterior and posterior papillary muscles.