trap
/tɹæp/ verb C1- To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses). · She was all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.
He/she/it traps · Past trapped · Past participle trapped · -ing form trapping
Verb forms
- Base form
- trap
- He/she/it
- traps
- Past
- trapped
- Past participle
- trapped
- -ing form
- trapping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I’ve been cooped up two days, and I’ve spent the daylight hours—as much daylight as I could get in that rat trap—in putting the thing into words.
But the quick inference, the subtle trap, the clever forecast of coming events, the triumphant vindication of bold theories—are these not the pride and the justification of our life’s work?
With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life.
It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.
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