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verb take or catch as if in a snare or trap
verb catch in or as if in a trap
originFrom Middle French entrapper, entraper, from Old French entraper, antraper (“catch in a trap”), equivalent to en- + trap. Compare Middle English bitrappen, from Old English betræppan (“to catch in a trap, entrap”), from the same West Germanic source (see Modern English betrap).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0