Another word for trapping

He leaned across the kitchen, trapping her between his two arms.

The icicles are prison bars on our windows, trapping us, prisoners to this life of sin and degradation...

There young Parkman spent his leisure hours in collecting eggs, insects and reptiles, trapping squirrels and woodchucks, and shooting birds with arrows.

As many of these beetles are nocturnal, this trapping should take place at night.

He could block the hole, but there was no way of knowing if he would be trapping them inside.