Loading page
say it: sner
snare is a noun and verb meaning "something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares". It carries 7 recorded senses.
something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
“the exam was full of trap questions”
“it was all a snare and delusion”
a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head
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
strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for snare come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.