trapped

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Trapped means caught or stuck somewhere without being able to leave.

When someone says they feel trapped, they usually mean that their situation is difficult to escape. This can happen at home when relationships become too stressful, or at work when a job becomes overwhelming and you feel like you're stuck in it. It's common for people to talk about feeling trapped when they're unhappy with their lives but don't know how to change them.

How common is "trapped"?

Word trapped is considered rare in modern English.
It has a balanced usage among all categories: speech, fiction, newspapers and academic texts.

Definitions

verb

To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
Example: to trap foxes
To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
To provide with a trap.
Example: to trap a drain
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game
Example: trap for beaver
To leave suddenly, to flee.
To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.