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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: forced to turn and face attackers; "a stag at bay"; "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a trapped animal" [syn: at bay, cornered, trapped, treed]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trap Trap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trapping.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. --Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. --Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. --Tennyson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you feel trapped, you are in an unpleasant situation in which you lack freedom, and you feel you cannot escape from it. ...people who think of themselves as trapped in mundane jobs. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ see also trap