ensnarl
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)l
Verb
ensnarl (third-person singular simple present ensnarls, present participle ensnarling, simple past and past participle ensnarled)
- To entangle; to trap.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
- They in awayt would closely him ensnarle, / Ere to his den he backward could recoyle, / And so would hope him easily to foyle.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
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