Thesaurus results for TRAPDOOR

trapdoor

noun

as in portcullis

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Recent Examples of trapdoor To O’Connor, humor is a trapdoor, a way to disarm the audience in order to deliver that emotional payload. —

Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025 Similar to the Broadway musical, the new movie ends with Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and her strawman swain Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) walking into the sunset away from Oz, after the revelation that Elphaba staged her own melting death by hiding under a trapdoor. —

Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025 His stomach dropped as the trapdoor opened beneath him, plunging him into a void of air. —

George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025 The gas would fill a box that was divided in two by a wall with a trapdoor. —

Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trapdoor

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The entrance to the car park even passes under a portcullis and guests’ bags go through an X-ray machine hidden in the rock-face.

— Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The prior owner went all out on building a Medieval-style castle, with a moat, a drawbridge and a portcullis.

— Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022