Definition of "entrap"

entrap

/ɪnˈtɹæp/

verb
third-person singular simple present entraps, present participle entrapping, simple past and past participle entrapped
1. (transitive) To catch in a trap or snare.
  Quotations
  Then noble ſouldiers to intrap these theeues […] We haue our Cammels laden al with gold:Which you that be but common ſouldiers,Shall fling in euery corner of the field:And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp,You […] Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act II, scene ii
  He goes home to complain to his father, and the two of them decide on a plan to entrap Enkidu.
  1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189
2. (transitive) To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.