Word Meanings - ENSNARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENSNARE)

• Befool
• Deceive
• cheat
• mystify
• bamboozle
• ensnare
• hoodwink
• mislead
• Betray
• delude
• dupe
• circumvent
• dishonor
• manifest
• indicate
• reveal
• Catch
• Take
• seize
• grip
• clutch
• capture
• secure
• snatch
• hit
• arrest
• comprehend
• overtake
• apprehend
• Trick
• beguile
• gull
• take in
• over reach
• betray
• entrap
• Decoy
• Allure
• entice
• seduce
• inveigle
• lure
• tempt

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENSNARE)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Liberate
• release
• emancipate
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open

Related words: (words related to ENSNARE)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ENTRAP
  To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of
• DECOYER
  One who decoys another.
• TEMPTER
  One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
• EMANCIPATE
  Set at liberty.
• SEDUCER
  One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
• TEMPTING
  Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
• MANIFEST
  1. A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. See Manifesto. 2. A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse. Bouvier.
• CATCHWORK
  A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• CATCHER
  The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• METEMPTOSIS
  The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years,
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• UNCOMPREHEND
  To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• BEAUCATCHER
  A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
• CONY-CATCH
  To deceive; to cheat; to trick. Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.