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  • adjective Not trapped.

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un- +‎ trapped

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Examples

  • We "untrapped" her yesterday afternoon, and she was like a little kid let out to play.

    Polimom Says 2008

  • After all, how much do you need to say in a story where only two things really happen -- a guy's arm gets trapped, and the guy cuts off his own arm to get untrapped?

    Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: 127 Hours -- Between a Rock and an Overrated Place Jonathan Kim 2010

  • After all, how much do you need to say in a story where only two things really happen -- a guy's arm gets trapped, and the guy cuts off his own arm to get untrapped?

    Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: 127 Hours -- Between a Rock and an Overrated Place Jonathan Kim 2010

  • After all, how much do you need to say in a story where only two things really happen -- a guy's arm gets trapped, and the guy cuts off his own arm to get untrapped?

    Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: 127 Hours -- Between a Rock and an Overrated Place Jonathan Kim 2010

  • But they are working right now to cut him out and get that person untrapped from that driver's seat, guys.

    CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006 2006

  • Mountain men tended to amble when they traveled—good hunting, an untrapped stream, native women, or general laziness might slow them down.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • One could say that a sunao mind is an untrapped mind, free to adapt itself effectively to new circumstances.

    Matsushita Leadership John P. Kotter 1997

  • Wet curing prevents the evaporation of untrapped water from within the blocks which is vital for the lime-clay reactions to occur.

    Chapter 6 1995

  • Lorentz, assuming a fixed aether, untrapped and undragged, had nevertheless obtained an electromag - netic derivation of Fresnel's formula far more con - vincing than that given by Fresnel.

    RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

  • But hundreds of others, untrapped, filled the fluid about them.

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

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