deathtrap

[ deth-trap ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a structure, place, or situation where there is imminent risk of death:
They escaped from the deathtrap just before it exploded.

First recorded in 1825–35; death + trap ¹

It drowns in the underground deathtrap and becomes a meal for the plant.

Hidden beneath the soil and inside dark, mossy pockets below tree roots, carnivorous pitcher plants dangled their deathtraps underground.

Gleaming, gluey, deathtrap hairs have just betrayed the secret identity of a well-known wildflower.

Something took the peaceful life forms, shook them up, and turned this planet into one big deathtrap for mankind.

These brutal bosches are going to put themselves in a guetapens, a veritable deathtrap.

Yet you serve him and all the time have a deathtrap in your den.

Instead of a garden of delights, they had walked into a deathtrap at the gate of entrance.

For a dramatic moment, I held my head within the yawning deathtrap.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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