Definitions for snare

• Definition
• Anagrams (80)

snare snare

Spelling: [snair]

IPA: /snɛər/

Snare is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in snare (aenrs).

Definitions for snare

noun

1. a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
2. anything serving to entrap or entangle unawares; trap.
3. Surgery. a wire noose for removing tumors or the like by the roots or at the base.
4. one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.

verb (used with object)

1. to catch with a snare; entangle.
2. to catch or involve by trickery or wile:

Origin of snare

before 1100; Middle English (noun and v.); cognate with Old Norse snara, Middle Low German snare, Old High German snar(a)ha

Examples for snare

Let not his natural affections be as the snare of the fowler unto his feet.

You are, indeed, fortunate in having escaped from the snare he laid for you.

It is a snare in which souls of average virtue often become entangled.

Which does not mean, however, that they are far from the snare.

After police confronted Dilello with the wiretaps, she agreed to wear a wire to snare Hagiwara and admit her role in the plot.

Meant to capture fish by the gills (hence the name), they snare anything from sea turtles to dolphins.

Should Mr. Greenberg snare a major settlement without A.I.G., the company could face additional lawsuits from other shareholders.

And when he saw I was not to be led, he endeavoured to drive me into the snare.

It has snared, or threatens to snare, millions of taxpayers in the middle class and above.

Still more keys engage an array of other sounds, from snare drums and cymbals to awooga horns and sirens.