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单词 re-ensnare
释义

re-ensnarev.

Brit. /ˌriːᵻnˈsnɛː/, /ˌriːɛnˈsnɛː/, U.S. /ˌriənˈsnɛ(ə)r/, /ˌriɛnˈsnɛ(ə)r/
Forms: see re- prefix and ensnare v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, ensnare v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + ensnare v.
rare.
transitive. To ensnare again.
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1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant section i He that plants his Engines euery-where..and re-insnares The soule of man.
1651 L. Willan Astræa v. ii. 109 What hath ye hither brought, ye beaut'ous Pair? Was it again our Lives to reinsnare?
1792 E. Sweetman Speech Freeholders 33 Your ancient oppressors are on the watch to inflame your passions and reinsnare you into worse than your former bondage.
1840 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 24 What I would especially Thou for my wild soul should'st do; And held in sweet captivity By what new longing, To re-ensnare it I endeavored.
a1845 L. Blanchard Sketches from Life (1846) III. 279 She herself was deep in a rumination upon the most efficient mode of re-insnaring a discarded suitor.
1992 O. L. Graham Losing Time iii. xii. 295 The answers we give to it tell more about our mood as we answer it than about the problem itself, which re-ensnares every generation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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