entrapping

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In dressing rooms, a size-XS shirt would go over my head instead of entrapping me like a straitjacket.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2024

Many pits were active over thousands of years, entrapping countless animals whose remains muddled together.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023

Nevertheless, the lies, deceptions and sudden strokes of honesty and performative goodwill have become so frequent as to be inseparable at this point, entrapping Sarah in a perpetual guessing game.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2021

In addition to entrapping fellow male cicadas, the infected males also go after female cicadas, UConn said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2020

Entrap′ment, act of entrapping: the state of being entrapped: Entrap′per.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various