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Trapped   /træpt/   Listen
Trapped

adjective
1.
Forced to turn and face attackers.  Synonyms: at bay, cornered, treed.  "She had me cornered between the porch and her car" , "Like a trapped animal"


Trap

verb
(past & past part. trapped; pres. part. trapping)
1.
Place in a confining or embarrassing position.  Synonym: pin down.
2.
Catch in or as if in a trap.  Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel.
3.
Hold or catch as if in a trap.
4.
To hold fast or prevent from moving.  Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, pin.



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"Trapped" Quotes from Famous Books



... "They've got us trapped, Jack! Sure they have! Look up!" came his warning shout, and as the pilot craned his neck to obey he discovered no less than three big German Gotha battleplanes hovering over them, waiting to engage them ...
— Air Service Boys Flying for Victory - or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold • Charles Amory Beach
... Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdom in their insides; bearded headmen of the wards; Sikhs with all the details of the latest ecclesiastical scandal in the Golden Temple; red-eyed priests from beyond the Border, looking like trapped wolves and talking like ravens; M.A.'s of the University, very superior and very voluble—all these people and more also you might find in the white room. Wali Dad lay in the window-seat and ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling
... duty, posting our squads at proper vantage points along the further edge of our old familiar field, beyond the trenches where Vera was trapped. The lieutenant took us out, explaining as he went, dropping a squad on every-other rise of the ground, and leaving its corporal to post his men. Soon we were strung out along half a mile of rough country, ...
— At Plattsburg • Allen French
... mind feeling sort of like the famous sparrow who'd gotten trapped for three hours in a badminton game at Forest Hills, I built a strong highball, and poured it down while my halluscene set was warming up. I needed the highball as well as the relaxation, because I knew that the "Drama" being presented was the hundred ...
— The Big Fix • George Oliver Smith
... bred within the memory of no few A priesthood such as Baal's was of old, A people such as never was till now. It is a hungry vice:—it eats up all That gives society its beauty, strength, Convenience, and security, and use; Makes men mere vermin, worthy to be trapped And gibbeted, as fast as catchpole claws Can seize the slippery prey; unties the knot Of union, and converts the sacred band That holds mankind together to a scourge. Profusion, deluging a state with lusts Of grossest nature and of worst effects, Prepares ...
— The Task and Other Poems • William Cowper


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