trap
/tɹæp/ verbo C2En español: atrapar, atrampar, trampear
- To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap. · to trap foxes
- To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. · Be careful not to trap your finger in the door.· She was trapped into admitting the truth.
- To provide with a trap. · to trap a drain· to trap a sewer pipe
- To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping. · trap for beaver· They trapped north along the river.
- To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear. · After three consecutive bolters, the pilot finally trapped successfully on the Nimitz.
- To leave suddenly, to flee.
- To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
- To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door. · For quotations using this term, see Citations:trap.
He/she/it traps · Pasado trapped · Participio pasado trapped · Forma en -ing trapping
Formas del verbo
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Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.
Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at first the little girl thought she had lost him.
She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen.
A FOX caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail.
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