Usually means: Trap for capturing animals quickly.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. snare: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. snare: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. snare, snare: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. snare: Collins English Dictionary
  5. snare: Vocabulary.com
  6. Snare, snare: Wordnik
  7. snare: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. SNARE, Snare, snare: Wiktionary
  9. snare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. snare: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. snare: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Snare, snare: Dictionary.com
  13. snare (1), snare (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. snare: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SNARE (protein), SNARE, Snare (percussion), Snare (software), Snare, The Snare: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Snare: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. snare: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. snare: Rhymezone
  19. Snare: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. snare: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SNARE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. snare: Free Dictionary
  23. snare: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. snare: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. snare: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Snare: Early Patches (musical instruments)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snare: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snare: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. snare: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SNARE: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Snare: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. snare, snare: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. snare: The Folk File
  3. snare: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
noun:  A mental or psychological trap.
noun:  (veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
noun:  (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
noun:  (music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
noun:  (music) A snare drum.
verb:  (transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To ensnare.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins whose primary role is to mediate vesicle fusion.

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