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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



... her delicate profile and gave it as sulky an expression as she could assume. She really liked him, but was annoyed at being trapped. ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... several hundred half-naked Javanese, armed only with spears, stand shoulder to shoulder in a great circle, perhaps ten-score yards across, their spears pointing inward so as to form a steel fringe to the human barricade. A cage containing a tiger, which has been trapped in the jungle for the occasion, is hauled forward to the circle's edge. At a signal from the Sultan the door of the cage is opened and the great striped cat, its yellow eyes glaring malevolently, its stiffened tail ...
— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell

... Even as she looked, in that first swift moment of apprehension, a spurt of smoke came from one of the rifles and was flung back from the forked pine at the bottom of the mesa. She saw him then, kneeling behind his insufficient shelter, a trapped man ...
— Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West • William MacLeod Raine

... had a great respect for the Bishop—a man who had been both his own and his father's friend. Often as a lad he had hunted, fished, and trapped with the preacher-overseer, who lived near his father's plantation. He had broken all of the stubborn colts in the overseer's care; he had ridden them even in some of their fiercest, hardest races, and he had felt the thrill of victory at the ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore

... act as intermediate host and release larval form of parasite that penetrates the skin of people exposed to contaminated water; worms mature and reproduce in the blood vessels, liver, kidneys, and intestines releasing eggs, which become trapped in tissues triggering an immune response; may manifest as either urinary or intestinal disease resulting in decreased work or learning capacity; mortality, while generally low, may occur in advanced cases usually due to bladder ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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