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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. forced to turn and face attackers;
- Example: "a stag at bay"
- Example: "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"
- Example: "like a trapped animal"
[syn: at bay(p), cornered, trapped, treed]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Corner \Cor"ner\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cornered (-n?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cornering.] 1. To drive into a corner. [1913 Webster] 2. To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument. [1913 Webster] 3. To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cornered \Cor"nered\ (-n?rd), p. a. 1 Having corners or angles. [1913 Webster] 2. In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cornered adj 1: forced to turn and face attackers; "a stag at bay"; "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a trapped animal" [syn: at bay(p), cornered, trapped, treed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "cornered": V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, at bay, aux abois, bent, between two fires, crooked, crotched, endangered, forked, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, hooked, imperiled, in a corner, in a predicament, in danger, in desperate case, in extremis, in jeopardy, jagged, jeopardized, knee-shaped, on the spot, pointed, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, threatened, treed, up a stump, up a tree, zigzag