trap

trap is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as transitive verb, noun, adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 27 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
2. noun. An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.
3. adjective. Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
4. noun. A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
5. noun. Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
6. noun. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.
7. noun. The game of trapball.
8. noun. A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.
9. noun. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
10. noun. A wagon, or other vehicle.
11. noun. A kind of movable stepladder.
12. transitive verb. To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
13. transitive verb. Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
14. transitive verb. To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
15. intransitive verb. To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
16. noun. the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise

    Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush

17. noun. a hazard on a golf course

    Synonyms: bunker

18. noun. a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
19. noun. a light two-wheeled carriage
20. noun. a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters
21. noun. drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
22. noun. informal terms for the mouth

    Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, maw, yap

23. noun. something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares

    "the exam was full of trap questions"

    "it was all a snare and delusion"

    Synonyms: snare

24. verb. to hold fast or prevent from moving

    "The child was pinned under the fallen tree"

    Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, pin

25. verb. catch in or as if in a trap

    "The men trap foxes"

    Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel

26. verb. hold or catch as if in a trap

    "The gaps between the teeth trap food particles"

27. verb. place in a confining or embarrassing position

    "He was trapped in a difficult situation"

Synonyms

ambuscade, ambush, bunker, cakehole, gob, hole, maw, yap, snare, immobilise, immobilize, pin, ensnare, entrap, trammel

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in trap:

part, prat, rapt, tarp

Common word forms

traps, trapes, trapped, trapper, trapping

Words from these letters

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