Man invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever have thought to build a mousetrap!
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Mousetrap
//ˈmaʊsˌtɹæp//
Synonyms for "mousetrap" (30 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (15)
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14 entriesTranslations
65 translations across 45 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- muisval noun (device for killing mice)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μυάγρα noun (device for killing mice)
Asi
1 entries- yabti noun (device for killing mice)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- siçan tələsi noun (device for killing mice)
Bikol Central
1 entries- atipil noun (device for killing mice)
Bulgarian
2 entries- долнокачествено сирене noun (everyday cheese)
- капан за мишки noun (device for killing mice)
Catalan
1 entries- ratera noun (device for killing mice)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- تەڵەمشک noun (device for killing mice)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏥᏍᏕᏥ ᏌᏛᏗ noun (device for killing mice)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 老鼠夾 /老鼠夹 noun (device for killing mice)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 捕鼠器 noun (device for killing mice)
Czech
2 entries- past na myši noun (device for killing mice)
- pastička noun (device for killing mice)
Danish
1 entries- musefælde noun (device for killing mice)
Dutch
1 entries- muizenval noun (device for killing mice)
Esperanto
1 entries- muskaptilo noun (device for killing mice)
Finnish
4 entries- hiirenloukku noun (device for killing mice)
- hilavitkutin noun (hypothetical product)
- parempi hiirenloukku noun (hypothetical product)
- rotanloukku noun (device for killing mice)
French
2 entries- piège à souris noun (device for killing mice)
- souricière noun (device for killing mice)
Galician
1 entries- ratoeira noun (device for killing mice)
German
2 entries- Mausefalle noun (device for killing mice)
- Rattenfalle noun (device for killing mice)
Greek
2 entries- ποντικοπαγίδα noun (device for killing mice)
- φάκα noun (device for killing mice)
Hungarian
1 entries- egérfogó noun (device for killing mice)
Hunsrik
1 entries- Rattefall noun (device for killing mice)
Icelandic
4 entries- fjalaköttur noun (device for killing mice)
- músafella noun (device for killing mice)
- músagildra noun (device for killing mice)
- tréköttur noun (device for killing mice)
Ingrian
1 entries- loukku noun (device for killing mice)
Italian
1 entries- trappola per topi noun (device for killing mice)
Japanese
2 entries- ネズミ捕り noun (device for killing mice)
- 鼠取り noun (device for killing mice)
Kazakh
1 entries- тышқан қақпан noun (device for killing mice)
Korean
1 entries- 쥐덫 noun (device for killing mice)
Latin
1 entries- mūscipula noun (device for killing mice)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pelėkautai noun (device for killing mice)
Macedonian
3 entries- глу́вчарник noun (device for killing mice)
- кла́па noun (device for killing mice)
- ста́пица за глу́вци noun (device for killing mice)
Mongolian
2 entries- хулганы хавх noun (device for killing mice)
- ᠬᠤᠯᠤᠭᠠᠨᠠ ᠵᠢᠨ ᠬᠠᠪᠬᠠ noun (device for killing mice)
Norwegian
1 entries- musefelle noun (device for killing mice)
Old English
1 entries- mūsfealle noun (device for killing mice)
Persian
1 entries- تلهموش noun (device for killing mice)
Polish
4 entries- pułapka na myszy noun (device for killing mice)
- pułapka na myszy noun (computing: website designed to open another copy of itself)
- pułapka na myszy noun (hypothetical product)
- pułapka na myszy noun (everyday cheese)
Portuguese
1 entries- ratoeira noun (device for killing mice)
Romanian
1 entries- cursă de șoareci noun (device for killing mice)
Russian
1 entries- мышело́вка noun (device for killing mice)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mišolovka noun (device for killing mice)
- мишоловка noun (device for killing mice)
Spanish
1 entries- ratonera noun (device for killing mice)
Swedish
2 entries- musfälla noun (device for killing mice)
- råttfälla noun (device for killing mice)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཙི་ཙི་ཟིན་ཡག noun (device for killing mice)
Turkish
1 entries- fare kapanı noun (device for killing mice)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bẫy chuột noun (device for killing mice)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
The dog with the puppy is the master of the house. The cat rids the house of mice, which a mousetrap also does.
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A mousetrap rids the house of mice.
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Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.
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