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death trap

noun

  1. a building, vehicle, etc, that is considered very unsafe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

I recognized several of the camps where the Dales and Ward had halted when the brute was leading them into the death-trap.

It was a death trap that any experienced mountaineer would recognize at a glance.

As long as we held to our fundamental assumption—that Davies had been decoyed into a death-trap in September—it explained nothing.

They were only allowed to remain south of the Marne long enough for Foch to convert these river crossings into a death-trap.

Then the enemy began to shell the second line, and Zouave Wood became a death-trap.

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