Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| old | old device | old trap |
| elaborate | elaborate device | elaborate trap |
| similar | similar device | similar trap |
| common | common device | common trap |
| Other adjectives: certain, single, simple, powerful, actual, massive, big, complicated, huge, dangerous, magic, ancient, new, deadly, hidden, explosive, flying, titular, giant, magical, electrical. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Wallace has a device in his bedroom that causes the bed to dump him through a trap door into the dining room.
Source: Trap-Door Fail - Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Future Danny and Sam are about to trap Dan when Tucker and Valerie who were trying to help bring along a device which Dan uses to trap Future Danny and Sam.
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Time Is Dangerous: Clock King uses a time-altering device to trap Batman and Robin in a "bubble" of slowed time, where seconds for them pass as hours on the outside.
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