Word Meanings - INSNARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.

Additional info about word: INSNARE

Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle. The insnaring charms Of love's soft queen. Glover.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSNARE)

• Tangle
• Intertwist
• interlock
• snarl
• complicate
• insnare
• mat

Related words: (words related to INSNARE)

• SNARL
  To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• INTERLOCK
  To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
• TANGLEFISH
  The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.
• INSNARE
  Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.
• INTERTWISTINGLY
  By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.
• SNARLER
  One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.
• COMPLICATENESS
  Complexity. Sir M. Hale.
• SNARLING
  from Snarl, v. Snarling iron, a tool with a long beak, used in the process of snarling. When one end is held in a vise, and the shank is struck with a hammer, the repercussion of the other end, or beak, within the article worked upon gives
• COMPLICATE
  Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise. (more info) 1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.
• TANGLE
  1. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel. 2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. "Tangled in amorous nets."
• COMPLICATELY
  In a complex manner.
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• INSNARL
  To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. Cotgrave.
• ENSNARL
  To entangle. Spenser.
• ENTANGLE
  1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair. 2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence,
• ENTANGLEMENT
  State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
• DISENTANGLE
  1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn. 2. To extricate from complication and
• SEPTANGLE
  A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon.
• INTANGLE
  See ENTANGLE
• UNENTANGLE
  To disentangle.