ensnare
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
take or catch as if in a snare or trap
I was set up!
Types & categories
- deceive hypernym
Related & opposite
- frame-up derivation
- entrapment derivation
Sense 2 verb
catch in or as if in a trap
The men trap foxes
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | frame-up |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | entrapment |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | deceive |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | noose |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | trap |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | snarer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | trapper |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | hunting |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | capture |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | gin |