A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
Place limits on (extent or access)
Catch in or as if in a trap.
A fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh.
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Examples for "trap "
Examples for "trap "
1 The Roman opened the trap - door in the ground in order to descend.
2 Conclusions: Results strongly encourage the use of BG - trap for collecting host-seeking An.
3 So let us also use him to help us set our trap .
4 They often booby trap areas under their control before leaving, complicating return.
5 He closed and bolted the trap - door in the floor of the tower.
1 The daughter of the sultan was captivated in the snare of love.
2 The sun is caught in the snare I set for the squirrel.
3 Beware the so-called road map; it is a snare and a delusion.
4 I am entangled in the snare of the Evil One, Master Benteen.
5 A simple noose is all you need to make an effective snare .
1 He accuses the US law enforcement agency of trying to entrap him.
2 So there I was, sitting outside his house, waiting to entrap him.
3 She was not prepared to betray the one, and entrap the other.
4 She would weave her web right skilfully to entrap his unsuspecting steps.
5 We left Lafayette at Williamsburg, disappointed at the failure to entrap Arnold.
1 The devils went forth in a troop to ensnare souls on earth.
2 At Vilna the Emperor directed the movements that were to ensnare Bagration.
3 I grasp wildly with my left until I ensnare the other side.
4 But this snag was nought to the briars yet to ensnare us.
5 More importantly, she had managed to ensnare Dante with her seductive skills.
1 Who can trammel up consequences but the Lord of the Universe?
2 By good luck, Billy tells me, the trammel has made a good haul.
3 Briefly thus: I have but learnt of the trammel in which I am taken.
4 I like to be up before all the trammel starts.
5 How is she ever to know you, according to the rules which trammel society?
6 At once he saw the trammel spread for him.
7 I won't trammel you with so great a burden.
8 You can't trammel the creative mind." "Why not?" said Thomas.
9 My great trammel has been the non-existence of any definitely stated alternative on my opponents' part.
10 Here the pools are swept with small meshed trammel nets of all the fish that they contain.
11 But it may be still more completely hidden, as for instance in the common elliptic trammel , Fig.
12 Or is the tendency rather to trammel and divert them by so much laborious and irrelevant interference?
13 But sends no troops to trammel
14 A husband would trammel them.
15 That which is progress to-day, may it not one hundred years hence have become mere routine, and a downright trammel ?
16 I have studied every pothook and trammel of his first literary performance, to see what rays of genius could be discovered.
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