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noun • something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares • a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head • a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities • strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit • a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose verb • catch in or as if in a trap • entice and trap | ||||||||
| 24% | 6 | Exclamations meaning “to weapons!” originally, later a word for distress/alert signals; or, devices transmitting said warnings, such as bells, clocks, sirens or tocsins | ||||||
noun • fear resulting from the awareness of danger • a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event • an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger • a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time verb • fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised • warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | ||||||||
| 24% | 6 | Sirens | ||||||
adjective • engaged in or accustomed to close observation noun • condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action • a warning serves to make you more alert to danger • an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger adjective satellite • quick and energetic • mentally perceptive and responsive verb • warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | ||||||||
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