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• v  place in a confining or embarrassing position
  He was trapped in a difficult situation
• v  catch in or as if in a trap
• v  hold or catch as if in a trap
• v  to hold fast or prevent from moving
• s  forced to turn and face attackers
  like a trapped animal

• More than 10 days after the disaster, six Utah miners are still trapped and three rescuers are dead.
• Question: Can you make a gripping movie about two severely wounded men trapped in the dark, totally immobilized under tons of rubble and unable to speak in anything but broken.
• Of the eleven desperadoes who fled the Kansas State Penitentiary last May, nine had been killed or jailed when the tenth was trapped last week in a small house at Shawnee, Okla.

• trap
• pin down
• entrap
• snare
• ensnare
• trammel
• pin
• immobilize
• immobilise
• at bay
• cornered
• treed

News & Articles

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• MetroSafe: 2 trapped in crashed plane on golf course
  Two people are trapped inside a small plane after it crashed onto Seneca Golf Course, according to MetroSafe.
  June 12, 2013 - WAVE 3 Louisville
• Man trapped under crane boom dies
  A man who was trapped under a crane boom was declared deceased by emergency personnel on the scene. Read more at KOB.com
  June 11, 2013 - KOB 4 Albuquerque
• Man trapped under crane has died
  Emergency crews responded to Structural Services after reports of a man trapped under a crane boom.
  June 11, 2013 - KRQE & KASA FOX 2 Albuquerque

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  None of this will seem quick enough if you have a loved one who's trapped, if you're sleeping on the streets, if you can't feed your children,Obama said. "So today, you must know that help is arriving. Much, much more help is on the way."
• President Bush in San Mateo Daily Journal
  The nations in this chamber have our differences, yet there are some areas where we can all agree,Bush said. "When innocent people are trapped in a life of murder and fear, the declaration is not being upheld. When millions of children...
• Cherie Blair in The Associated Press
  Across the world, widows suffer dreadful discrimination and abuse,Blair said. "In too many cases they're pushed to the very margins of society, trapped in poverty and left vulnerable to abuse and exploitation."