Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To ensnare; entrap.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take with or as with toils; insnare; entangle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To capture with
toils or nets; toensnare .
Etymologies
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en- + toil
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Examples
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He used a thousand seductive arts to entoil, and he succeeded.
Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck 1864
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