1. a trap for catching small animals, typically made with a noose
2. a thing likely to lure someone into harm or error
3. a set of wire strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum
Usage: music

1. to catch in or as if in a snare; trap

Examples

• The hunter set a snare to catch rabbits.
• She fell into the snare of easy credit offers.
• The detective’s questions were a snare to catch the suspect in a lie.
• The snare drum’s wires rattled with each beat.
• The spider snared the fly in its web.
• He was snared by the complicated legal contract.
• The poacher used wire snares to catch birds illegally.