ENTRAPMENT Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

entrapment

noun

Definition of entrapment

as in entanglement

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as in arrest

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Recent Examples of entrapment The franchise launched in 1996 with a game that took players and Croft to Peru, Greece, Egypt, and the lost island of Atlantis, dodging all manner of creatures and entrapments. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026 The cause of the medical issue or entrapment wasn't immediately known. — Doug Myers, CBS News, 7 May 2026 The collision caused entrapment, a situation where a driver or passenger is physically restrained or unable to exit the vehicle due to damaged parts, and one confirmed fully engulfed vehicle fire. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 3 May 2026 It was also noted that a child's torso can fit through the openings on the sides of the towers which could potentially result in serious injury, death or entrapment. — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for entrapment

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Noun

Cassidy Teufel, deputy director at the coastal commission, said during a review of the project that seaweed farms use taut, rigid lines, not the loose fishing lines that are a leading cause of whale entanglements.

— Amy Taxin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
The film concerns a bus full of French high-school seniors on a trip to Pompeii, where the long gaze of history meets their hormonal entanglements and a bunch of Freudian desire.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of entanglement

Noun

Mendonca recently unsealed federal police documents that showed that Banco Master owner Daniel Vorcaro frequently sought de Moraes' legal advice before his arrest.

— MAURICIO SAVARESE, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Brown was not arrested at the scene, but police issued an arrest warrant shortly thereafter.

— Devon Henderson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of arrest

Noun

The company also says facial recognition and automatic family-moment capture work with your permission.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
That test will cover vessel rendezvous and approach, capture, fuel transfer, disconnection, and the USV’s return to its mission.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of capture

Noun

No single personality type or demographic was immune to the experience of a deep enmeshment with one’s audience, and to its profound consequences for their creativity and well-being.

— Julianna Pillemer, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026
Complex, intricate, and at all times realistic and humane, Famous Men is the pinnacle of the attempt to capture this specific and yet, all too universal, formative experience of enmeshment, devotion, and ego-death.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026

Definition of enmeshment

Noun

The court ruled late Monday in an emergency order that the restrictions would most likely lose in court, at least for this year's election.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
Chinese authorities imposed new restrictions on foreign travel in order to stop cutting-edge technology and top-flight researchers from leaving, taking a step closer to a regime that had characterized a more closed-off China of decades past.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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