'Cornered' definitions:
Definition of 'cornered'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Cornered'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Cornered'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'cornered'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- zigzag
Words containing 'Cornered'
- Corner,
- Cornering,
- Bliss Corner,
- By-corner,
- Carl's Corner,
- Chimney corner,
- College Corner,
- Corner stone,
- Corner tooth,
- Dollar Corner,
- Five Corners,
- Four Corners,
- Four Corners, OR,
- Fussels Corner,
- Hales Corners,
- Hole and corner,
- Moncks Corner,
- Munsons Corners,
- Myers Corner,
- Pinhook Corners,
- Poets' Corner,
- Puss in the corner,
- Sams Corner,
- Scotts Corners,
- Seven Corners,
- Skippers Corner,
- Spiveys Corner,
- Tillmans Corner,
- To cut corners,
- To turn a corner,
- To turn the corner,
- Tysons Corner,
- Westlake Corner,
- amen corner,
- blind corner,
- corner kick,
- corner man,
- corner pocket,
- corner post,
- cut corners,
- just around the corner,
- street corner,
- turn the corner,
- Bliss Corner, MA,
- Carl's Corner, TX,
- Cater-cornered,
- College Corner, OH,
- Dollar Corner, WA,
- Five Corners, WA,
- Four Corners, MT,
- Four Corners, TX,
- Four-cornered,
- Fussels Corner, FL,
- Hales Corners, WI,
- Moncks Corner, SC,
- Munsons Corners, NY,
- Myers Corner, NY,
- Pinhook Corners, OK,
- Sams Corner, OK,
- Scotts Corners, NY,
- Seven Corners, VA,
- Skippers Corner, NC,
- Spiveys Corner, NC,
- Three-cornered,
- Tillmans Corner, AL,
- To laugh out of the other corner of the mouth,
- Tysons Corner, VA,
- West College Corner,
- West College Corner, IN,
- Westlake Corner, VA,
- cata-cornered,
- catty-corner,
- catty-cornered,
- hole-and-corner,
- hole-in-corner,
- kitty-corner,
- kitty-cornered,
- sharp-cornered,
- Oyehut-Hogans Corner,
- three-cornered hat,
- three-cornered leek,
- bias catacorner cata-cornered catercorner cater-cornered catty-corner catty-cornered diagonal kitty-corner kitty-cornered oblique skew skewed slanted,
- Oyehut-Hogans Corner, WA