entrapments

Meaning of entrapments

noun
  1. The state of being entrapped.
    The entrapment of the victims in the wreckage made rescue difficult.
  2. 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.
  3. A method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.

Information about entrapments

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of entrapments is: entrapment.
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Hyphenation of entrapments

en-trap-ments

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • entrapments is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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