[en-trap] 
| 1. | to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare: The hunters used nets to entrap the lion. |
| 2. | to bring unawares into difficulty or danger: He entrapped himself in the web of his own lies. |
| 3. | to lure into performing an act or making a statement that is compromising or illegal. |
| 4. | to draw into contradiction or damaging admission: The questioner entrapped her into an admission of guilt. |
| 5. | Law. to catch by entrapment. |
| en·trap (ěn-trāp') tr.v. en·trapped, en·trap·ping, en·traps
[French entraper, from Old French : en-, in; see en-1 + trape, trap (of Germanic origin).] en·trap'ment n. |
