Trapping Synonyms and Antonyms

trăpĭng
Catch in or as if in a trap
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. trammelling
  2. ensnaring
  3. snaring
  4. entrapping
Antonyms:
  1. releasing
To hold fast or prevent from moving
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. catching
  2. webbing
  3. fooling
  4. snaring
  5. entrapping
  6. immobilizing
  7. tricking
  8. seducing
  9. trammelling
  10. pitting
  11. ensnaring
  12. netting
  13. nailing
  14. tangling
  15. maneuvering
  16. luring
  17. inveigling
  18. hazarding
  19. confining
  20. ambushing
  21. decoying
  22. cornering
  23. confounding
  24. capturing
  25. caging
  26. enmeshing
  27. baiting
  28. bagging
  29. incarcerating
  30. pinning
To deceive or trick by means of a scheme or plan.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. catching
Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. caparison
  2. housing

Words Related to Trapping

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Trapping Sentence Examples

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

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

  • Deidre and Toby stood.  Katie started forward, only for the rumbling ground to drive her to her knees.  Horrified, she saw the chasm form a rough circle around them, trapping them on a small island surrounded by football field wide trees and chasms too wide to jump.

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

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

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