trapped
受困,陷于困境,被困住了,被困住的
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- : a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- : any device, stratagem, trick, or the like for catching a person unawares.
- : any of various devices for removing undesirable substances from a moving fluid, vapor, etc., as water from steam or cinders from coal gas.
- : Also called air trap . an arrangement in a pipe, as a double curve or a U-shaped section, in which liquid remains and forms a seal for preventing the passage or escape of air or of gases through the pipe from behind or below.
- : traps, the percussion instruments of a jazz or dance band.
- : trap music.
- : Slang. trap house.
- : Trapshooting, Skeet. a device for hurling clay pigeons into the air.
- : trapdoor.
- : Golf. sand trap.
- : Sports. an act or instance of trapping a ball.
- : Also called mousetrap, trap play .Football. a play in which a defensive player, usually a guard or tackle, is allowed by the team on offense to cross the line of scrimmage into the backfield and is then blocked out from the side, thereby letting the ball-carrier run through the opening in the line.
- : the piece of wood, shaped somewhat like a shoe hollowed at the heel, and moving on a pivot, used in playing the game of trapball.
- : the game of trapball.
- : Slang. mouth: Keep your trap shut.
- : Slang: Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a crossdressing man who is perceived as or passes as a woman: a disparaging and offensive term when referring to a trans woman.
- : Chiefly British. a carriage, especially a light, two-wheeled one.
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trapped, trap·ping.
- : to catch in a trap; ensnare: to trap foxes.
- : to catch by stratagem, artifice, or trickery.
- : to furnish or set with traps.
- : to provide with a trap.
- : to stop and hold by a trap, as air in a pipe.
- : Sports. to catch as it rises after having just hit the ground.
- : Football. to execute a trap against.
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trapped, trap·ping.
- : to set traps for game: He was busy trapping.
- : to engage in the business of trapping animals for their furs.
- : Trapshooting, Skeet. to work the trap.
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Examples
He was able to pick apart those power plays in the third quarter because of the ineffective traps Los Angeles tried throwing onto Murray, who had dropped 20 points in the second quarter alone.
Setting traps can be a useful backup strategy for nourishment in a survival situation, and it frees up your time to accomplish other tasks.
I spent the next day digging holes, setting traps, and walking the trap line.
They might even be able to use those scents to bait the insects into traps.
Traps with 4VA attracted more locusts than did traps without the pheromone.
Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
But when I look out over the crowd now, I also see that they are trapped—trapped by their cowardice.
Imagine living 28 years—your whole life—trapped inside the wrong body.
When I saw the fire in the restaurant, I ran down to the floor below, where I was trapped between flames above and below.
I was definitely concerned [about former colleagues who may have been trapped inside].
To the weakness resulting from loss of blood was added the knowledge that this time he was trapped without hope of escape.
It was his firm belief that if he, Randulf, had been at home, they should never have trapped Jacob Worse.
Fool that he had been to come to Condillac that day, and to be trapped thus in her company, a partner in her guilt.
Whereon the man looked swiftly over his shoulder and saw that he was fairly trapped.
The arena was crowded with British and Indian cavalry, handsomely trapped in gold and red velvet.