entrap
- The action of encouraging, persuading excessively, or deceiving someone into committing a crime with the intent to bring criminal charges against that person
- The undercover officer was accused of trying to entrap the suspect by asking him to rob the bank.
- The defense argued that the defendant was entrapped into smuggling drugs into the country.
- There was a dispute over whether the suspect was entrapped into providing false information to the authorities.
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