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Help me out with a word please

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OLDroot · 13/02/2008 21:13

In a story...

I am standing behind the wardrobe door, and as the bad guy enters I slam the door on him and he is trapped int eh wardrobe...SOO

I slam the door .............. - what word can I use here?

triumphantly?

any other ideas?

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morningpaper · 13/02/2008 21:16

how can you trap a man in a wardrobe? Is he seven inches high? I'm not sure of the basic physics of it

desperately?

dippydeedoo · 13/02/2008 21:17

jubilantly?
forcefully?
with glee
like a woman possesed/on a mission

valentinesdaymascara · 13/02/2008 21:17

...something about panic/anger/rage/fear/adrenaline?......

SlartyBartFast · 13/02/2008 21:17

victoriousy

dippydeedoo · 13/02/2008 21:17

how are u gonna keep him in there tho-is it an old fashioned one with a lock???

OLDroot · 13/02/2008 21:18

7 inches?

It is a big wardrobe (not my story - it is for the French moody one) She put jumpinginly

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OLDroot · 13/02/2008 21:18

yes the wardrobe has a lock

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SlartyBartFast · 13/02/2008 21:19

aggressively

handlemecarefully · 13/02/2008 21:19

I'd go for the nice simple slick 'forcefully', can't abide overly poetic flowery prose

CalintineFrauers · 13/02/2008 21:19

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SlartyBartFast · 13/02/2008 21:19

with finality

gigglewitch · 13/02/2008 21:20

loudly

shall go to think of sensible suggestion now

PuppyMonkey · 13/02/2008 21:20

emphatically

handlemecarefully · 13/02/2008 21:21

It has to be forcefully....presumably the pursued person is suffering from the adrenalin 'fight or flight' reaction...forcefully goes well with this

ProfessorGrammaticus · 13/02/2008 21:21

firmly

OLDroot · 13/02/2008 21:21

My x peed in a wardrobe once.

and dh got trapped in a wardrobe when it fell on top of him

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SlartyBartFast · 13/02/2008 21:22

with a resounding thud

OLDroot · 13/02/2008 21:22

she is thinking either forcefully or triumphantly

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gigglewitch · 13/02/2008 21:26

did you do it
emphatically?
cunningly
with a vengeance
expectantly? depends why you shut him in there, are we talking with a view to having your wicked way with him...presumably not

claustrophobically oh no I'm doing it again.
What's all the talk of seven inches??? kindly explain?

OLDroot · 13/02/2008 21:28

he was chasing her and she trapped him -

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gigglewitch · 13/02/2008 21:34

by the +=/@##'s

Desiderata · 13/02/2008 21:38

Hey

How about 'she slammed the door.'

OLDroot · 13/02/2008 21:39

she has moved on now

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OLDroot · 13/02/2008 21:40

and thank you for all your help

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