snare

snare is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.
3. noun. The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.
4. noun. An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.
5. transitive verb. To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.
6. noun. a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose

   Synonyms: gin, noose

7. noun. strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit
8. noun. a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities
9. noun. a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head
10. noun. something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares

    "the exam was full of trap questions"

    "it was all a snare and delusion"

    Synonyms: trap

11. verb. entice and trap

    "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"

    Synonyms: hook

12. verb. catch in or as if in a trap

    "The men trap foxes"

    Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, trammel, trap

Synonyms

gin, noose, trap, hook, ensnare, entrap, trammel

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in snare:

anser, earns, nares, nears, rasen, rnase, saner

Common word forms

snared, snarer, snares, snaring, snareless

Words from these letters

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