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trap2 S3 past tense and past participle trapped, present participle trapping [transitive]
1 to prevent someone from escaping from somewhere, especially a dangerous place : 
Twenty miners were trapped underground.Dozens of people were trapped in the rubble when the building collapsed. There's no way out! We're trapped!
in a dangerous place
[usually passive]Twenty miners were trapped underground.Dozens of people were trapped in the rubble when the building collapsed.There's no way out! We're trapped!3 to catch an animal or bird using a trap
animal
4 to catch someone by forcing them into a place from which they cannot escape : The police trapped the terrorists at a roadblock.
catch somebody
The police trapped the terrorists at a roadblock.5 to trick someone so that you make them do or say something that they did not intend to
trick
6 to get a part of your body crushed between two objects [= pinch American English] Mind you don't trap your fingers in the door.
crush
British EnglishMind you don't trap your fingers in the door.7 to prevent something such as gas or water from getting away : solar panels that trap the sun's heat
gas/water etc
solar panels that trap the sun's heat
