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cornered

  • adjective

Having corners.

Other meanings

  1. Of a person or animal, forced into a difficult or inescapable situation.

Synonyms

  • trapped

Related words

  • tricornered
  • cater-cornered
  • catty-cornered
  • kitty-cornered
  • sharp-cornered
  • three-cornered
  • three-cornered jack

Example sentences

  • “He reacted like a cornered animal.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “cornered” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.