pitfalling

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The practice of setting up and using pitfalls to capture animals.
    — Here is all the evidence of which we are at present cognizant; but is it not almost enough to start a party for New Zealand in the hope of trapping, toiling, or pitfalling, —anything but shooting, —the biggest bird in the world, and bringing it alive to England, as the crown of the Knowsley and the Regent's Park menageries?
  2. The process or act of succumbing to an unexpected hazard or pitfall.
    — Now, falling in love is one thing, but pitfalling is another. A man dislikes the thought of being trapped into a marriage.
形容词 adj.
  1. entrapping; ensnaring not-comparable
    — able to shew us the ways of the Lord straight and faithful as they are, not full of cranks and contradictions, and pitfalling dispenses
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