snare

to catch (fangen)

TRANSLATION

fangen, in einer Falle fangen, mit einer Schlinge fangen

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

Jean Bailly, a member of the French Academy of Sciences, became the first mayor of Paris following the French Revolution in 1789. Soon thereafter, Robespierre's reign of terror SNARED him and he was sentenced to death.

While awaiting the guillotine, Bailly was heckled on the scaffold by a spectator who noticed that he was trembling. Replied Bailly: "Only from the cold, my friend."

Did you
know?

snare

Means to trap with or as if with a snare (die Schlinge). From the Middle English, from Old English snearu, and from Old Norse snara.

Synonyms:

arrest, bag, capture, catch, corral, deceive, decoy, embroil, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entice, entrap, hook, inveigle, land, lure, net, pull in, rope in, round up, seize, snag, snare, suck in, trap

to set a snare for so. = jmdm. eine Falle stellen
snare-drum [mus.] = die Schnarrtrommel, die Wirbeltrommel

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