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Trapped

adjective

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)

Place in a confining or embarrassing position. Synonym: pin down.

Catch in or as if in a trap. Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel.

Hold or catch as if in a trap.

To hold fast or prevent from moving. Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, pin.

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"Trapped" Quotes from Famous Books

... dress greens—the winter uniform worn with white shirt and a scarlet bow-tie—was still trapped behind his desk, hardly conscious of the joyful noises from beyond the door. "They haven't shown?" he bellowed into the telephone. "Don't fret your head about it, Sergeant. Those Reservists will damned well be on duty tomorrow morning or we'll have ...

— The Great Potlatch Riots • Allen Kim Lang

... altars, leave us no alternative but slavery or death. Two gallant armies have been marched to our assistance; but, for lack of competent commanders, both have been lost. That under general Lincoln, after having been duped and butchered at Savannah, was at last completely trapped at Charleston. And that under general Gates, after having been imprudently overmarched, is now cut up at Camden. Thus are all our hopes from the north entirely at an end; and poor Carolina is left to shift for herself. A sad shift indeed, when not one in a thousand of her own children ...

— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

... him, and saw he was right. The young man he had taken looked wildly up like a trapped animal into his face, and the Doctor could not suppress an exclamation when he saw the ...

— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley

... curtain-rise on the second act of one of those dramatic lives with which America has so often astounded the world. Bruised and bleeding in a southern, peon camp, where he and other hungry men had been trapped by a brutal slave driver, he drank the bitter cup of unrequited toil. And from this utter depth, in less than thirty years, he rose to the office of secretary of labor. There is drama enough for one life if ...

— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis

... describe in words, and it was more by gesture and the expression of his face that he conveyed to Dr. Silence the state of impotence he had reached. All this spying and watching, he said, had as it were spun a net about his feet so that he was trapped and powerless to escape; he felt like a fly that had blundered into the intricacies of a great web; he was caught, imprisoned, and could not get away. It was a distressing sensation. A numbness had crept over his will ...

— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

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