different between ensnare vs trepan

English

Alternative forms

• insnare

Etymology

From en- +? snare.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?sn??/, /?n-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?sn?(?)?/, /?n-/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

ensnare (third-person singular simple present ensnares, present participle ensnaring, simple past and past participle ensnared)

1. To entrap; to catch in a snare or trap.
   • 2005: Plato, Sophist, Translation by Lesley Brown, 250d-e,

     When we were asked to what one should apply the name “what is not”, we were ensnared in total paradox. Remember?

2. To entangle; to enmesh.

Related terms

• snare

Translations

Anagrams

• rennase

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???pæn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: tre?pan

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

1. A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
2. (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.

Translations

Verb

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning or trepaning, simple past and past participle trepanned or trepaned)

1. (transitive, manufacturing, mining) To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
2. (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly from Old English treppan (“to trap”).

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

1. (archaic) A trickster.
2. (archaic) A snare; a trapan.

   • Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.

Translations

Verb

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning, simple past and past participle trepanned)

1. (archaic) To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
   • 1798 Charlotte Turner Smith: The Young Philosopher. Vol.4, Chapter 9. ...a postchaise, into which he had so infamously trepanned me...

Translations

Anagrams

• -pteran, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, panter, parent

Spanish

Verb

trepan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of trepar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of trepar.