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Meanings of trap in English
Synonyms
Examples for "hole"
Examples for "hole"
1
Note the entrance; a vertical hole in the snow in the foreground
2
Not a break in the ceiling; not a hole in the floor.
3
At the bottom cut a hole in the edge, about 4 in.
4
In the country the after-birth can be buried in a deep hole.
5
I'll insult him; drill a hole in him; my honour requires it.
1
Side brushes theoretically help bring debris closer into the vacuum's hungry maw.
2
So much for the measure of the maw of the circulating library.
3
It was bad enough seeing the open maw for the first time.
4
It had been swallowed up in China's cavernous maw, that was all.
5
The grinding of stone announced the jackal's maw grating open once more.
1
The pug caught sight of his pyjama legs and began to yap.
2
Toby started barking, not his usual annoying yap but proper furious barks.
3
I keep it nice because if I didn't, the neighbors would yap.
4
He certainly behaved like a yap then, if you get my meaning.
5
Nothin' to talk about here much more excitin' than a coyote's yap.
1
As it happens, we're still looking at Jagger's gob 50 years on.
2
You were looking at at a pretty gob stopping endurance event, right?
3
He sprang from concealment, almost embracing the young gob in his delight.
4
It showed the utter unselfishness of the American doughboy, gob, and leatherneck.
5
There it was, simple and painful as a smack in the gob.
1
And he stuffed the rest down his cakehole quick smart.
2
Lolz, shizzle and cakehole are among 6,500 new words added to the existing quarter of a million in the latest Collins Scrabble word list.
Usage of trap in English
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.
6
He is afraid; he crouches like the panther in the trap, trembling.
7
The trap is of the type described in the chapter on hunting.
8
Let the kerosene remain in the trap for at least 5 minutes.
9
He has sensed conspiracy at every turn; a trap in every question.
10
The only light came from the open trap in the floor above.
11
Far more likely he'd set off the trap meant to deter thieves.
12
Here it is an open trap in the middle of the room.
13
One idea was to add burrs which would also help trap people.
14
The trap door was closed; Anita and I were crouching on it.
15
It is bad enough in the open-butlike a rat-ina trap.
16
Every moment shut him closer in the trap of an inevitable choice.
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