MEANING
1. To catch or hold someone or something in a trap or a situation from which escape is difficult.
2. To induce or lure someone into a situation that exposes them to accusation, wrongdoing, or disadvantage.
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Words that belong together
- entrap a traveler
- an entrapped animal
On the page
The narrowing passage entrapped the creature behind the moving wall.
The visitor had been entrapped before he understood which door had locked.
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Word forms
- Base
- entrap
- Past tense
- entrapped
- Past participle
- entrapped
- Present participle
- entrapping
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- entrap
- Present continuous
- am/is/are entrapping
- Present perfect
- have/has entrapped
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been entrapping
- Past
- entrapped
- Past continuous
- was/were entrapping
- Past perfect
- had entrapped
- Past perfect continuous
- had been entrapping
- Future
- will entrap
- Future continuous
- will be entrapping
- Future perfect
- will have entrapped
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been entrapping
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: entrap; entraps; entrapped; entrapped; entrapping Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: entraps.
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