Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having corners or angles; specifically, having three or more angles: chiefly in composition: as, a three-cornered hat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective 1 Having corners or angles.
- adjective In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
corner .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective forced to turn and face attackers
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Examples
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Last fall, when my friend Dr. Goggin cornered me and asked me to address you, to inflict some remarks upon you I should say, I thought possibly I might, acquire merit in absentia.
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That when he was last with Jess, something made him feel scared, or cornered, which is what makes him snap.
HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010
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In most cases someone spewing the delusional, grandiose and revenge-fueled pushback of what can only be called a cornered man would be talking this way to the Starbucks barista, the clerk at CVS, the ER nurse or the last person on his cell phone list of favorites who will take his calls.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nancy Doyle Palmer 2011
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He is sharing his story of how he 'cornered' his woman & got her pregnant!!
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He is sharing his story of how he 'cornered' his woman & got her pregnant!!
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He is sharing his story of how he 'cornered' his woman & got her pregnant!!
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In By Nightfall the register is necessarily more masculine, the oscillations now between a language of transcendence and a kind of cornered, caustic blokishness.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In By Nightfall the register is necessarily more masculine, the oscillations now between a language of transcendence and a kind of cornered, caustic blokishness.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In By Nightfall the register is necessarily more masculine, the oscillations now between a language of transcendence and a kind of cornered, caustic blokishness.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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She claims that In Touch "cornered" her with evidence of their relationship and that she would never have gone to the press.
I Was Mean to Bombshell McGee (And I Feel a Little Bit Guilty) 2010
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