deathtrap
a structure, place, or situation where there is imminent risk of death: They escaped from the deathtrap just before it exploded.
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How to use deathtrap in a sentence
It drowns in the underground deathtrap and becomes a meal for the plant.
This pitcher plant lures insects into underground deathtraps | Meghan Rosen | August 3, 2022 | Science News For StudentsHidden beneath the soil and inside dark, mossy pockets below tree roots, carnivorous pitcher plants dangled their deathtraps underground.
This pitcher plant species sets its deathtraps underground | Meghan Rosen | July 8, 2022 | Science NewsGleaming, gluey, deathtrap hairs have just betrayed the secret identity of a well-known wildflower.
Well-known wildflower turns out to be a secret meat-eater | Jaime Chambers | October 6, 2021 | Science News For StudentsSomething took the peaceful life forms, shook them up, and turned this planet into one big deathtrap for mankind.
Deathworld | Harry HarrisonThese 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.
Old Broadbrim Into the Heart of Australia | Author of "Old Broadbrim"Instead of a garden of delights, they had walked into a deathtrap at the gate of entrance.
The Battle of New Orleans | Zachary F. SmithFor a dramatic moment, I held my head within the yawning deathtrap.
Autobiography of a YOGI | Paramhansa Yogananda
British Dictionary definitions for death trap
a building, vehicle, etc, that is considered very unsafe
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