Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/September 3

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Word of the day
for September 3
trapan v (transitive)
  1. To catch or entrap (a person or animal) in a snare or trap; to ensnare, to trap.
  2. (figurative) To trap or trick (someone), especially by using some stratagem, into doing something that benefits the perpetrator but harms the victim; to defraud, to ensnare, to entrap, to swindle.

trapan n

  1. An act of entrapping or tricking; an entrapment; also, a thing which entraps or tricks; a snare or trap; a stratagem or trick.
  2. (probably originally thieves' cant, archaic or obsolete) A person (or occasionally an animal) that traps or tricks another into doing something that benefits them but harms the victim; a fraudster, a swindler, a trickster.
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