Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Entrap

Entrap , transitive verb

[Prefix en- + trap: compare Old French entraper.]

To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.
A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men. — Shakespeare