entrapped

Verb

The word is derived from entrap

Meaning

of Entrap

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Examples

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard. David A. Stewart

The professor who lectured on Shakespeare seemed to be entrapped in a grotesque, retrospective love affair with every one of Shakespeare's heroines. I think he even had a feeling that he could have made a respectable faculty wife out of Lady Macbeth. Robertson Davies

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write. Sam Shepard

He was entrapped by the evening, it has cost him his marriage. Lamba Proverb

He was entrapped by the evening, it has cost him his marriage. Bantu Proverb

His J-tube thermometers comprised a mercury column that was supported by a fixed mass of air entrapped within the sensing portion of the thermometer. Source: Internet

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