Definition of "ensnare"

ensnare

/ɛnˈsnɛə/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  Let theſe / Inſnare the vvretched in the toils of lavv, / Fomenting diſcord, and perplexing right, / An iron race!
  1730, James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, page 160, lines 1289–1292
  The Geese and the Cranes fed in the same meadow. A birdcatcher came to ensnare them in his nets.
  1887, Æsop, translated by George Fyler Townsend, Three Hundred Æsop's Fables‎
  When we were asked to what one should apply the name “what is not”, we were ensnared in total paradox. Remember?
  2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown and 250d-e, Sophist
2. To entangle; to enmesh.
  Quotations
  But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
  2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎