catch, capture, trap, snare, entrap, ensnare, bag mean to come to possess or control by or as if by seizing. catch implies the seizing of something in motion or in flight or in hiding. capture suggests …

TRAPPED definition: caught in or as if in a trap or by a ruse, trick, or stratagem. See examples of trapped used in a sentence.

To deceive or trick by means of a scheme or plan.

Definitions of trapped adjective forced to turn and face attackers “like a trapped animal” synonyms: at bay, cornered, treed unfree hampered and not free; not able to act at will

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trap somebody/something (+ adv./prep.) to force someone or something into a place or situation that they cannot escape from, especially in order to catch them The escaped prisoners were eventually …

trap suggests the scheme of one person to take another by surprise and thereby gain an advantage: a trap for the unwary.

Six women on a caving expedition become trapped underground in an unexplored cavern where savage creatures lurk in the darkness.

past simple and past participle of trap (Definition of trapped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

They were trapped and couldn't get out. She was trapped in the elevator for more than an hour.