entrapment
Meaning of entrapment
noun
- The state of being entrapped.
The entrapment of the victims in the wreckage made rescue difficult.
- Action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime.
A detective asking you to buy illegal marijuana for a dying man would be police entrapment.
- A method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.
Information about entrapment
- It is a name.
- The plural form of entrapment is: entrapments.
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Hyphenation of entrapment
en-trap-ment
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- entrapment is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of entrapment
- French: piège
Words that rhyme with entrapment
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