unable to escape► can't escape/can't get out · I've locked all the doors and windows - he can't get out.· Two of the children couldn't escape, and died in the fire.
► trapped unable to escape from a dangerous place or an unpleasant situation: · The miners have been trapped underground for three days.· He was beginning to feel trapped in his job.· The two trapped firefighters were rescued on the second day.
► be stuck especially spoken to be unable to escape from an unpleasant or boring situation: be stuck in/with/here: · I don't want to be stuck in an office all my life.· I'm tired of being stuck here with the kids all day.
► be cooped up informal to be unable to leave a place, so that you feel bored or very impatient: be cooped up in: · I didn't want to be cooped up in a small hotel room, while everyone else enjoyed the sea.be cooped up with: · I don't know how she survives being cooped up with three screaming kids all day!
► there is no escape used to say that there does not seem to be any way of escaping from a dangerous or unpleasant place or situation: · Don't even try to get out of here - there's no escape.there is no escape from: · There seems to be no escape from the noise and confusion of city life.
► be imprisoned to be unable to escape, or feel too frightened to escape, from the place where you are or from an unpleasant situation: · Some of these old people are imprisoned in their own homes by the threat of violence on the streets.
► be a prisoner to be unable to escape, for example from a place, an unpleasant situation, or your own thoughts and opinions, so that you feel you cannot do anything to change things: · The door was locked from the outside, and suddenly they realized they were prisoners.be a prisoner of: · In some respects I'm a prisoner of my past - I don't feel I can just start over.
having to stay for a period of time in a place that is too small: 
It isn’t good for you to be cooped up in the house all day.