Usually means: Capturing or trapping someone cleverly.
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  1. ensnaring: Merriam-Webster
  2. ensnaring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ensnaring: Vocabulary.com
  4. ensnaring: Wordnik
  5. ensnaring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ensnaring: Wiktionary
  7. ensnaring: Dictionary.com
  8. ensnaring: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ensnaring: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That ensnares or traps.

Similar:
entrap, trammel, trap, frame, snare, set up, pitfalling, snickled, spellbinding, captivate, more...

Opposite:
freeing, releasing, liberating, emancipating



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Similar:
entrap, trammel, trap, frame, snare, set up, pitfalling, snickled, spellbinding, captivate, more...

Opposite:
freeing, releasing, liberating, emancipating



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