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Synonyms for cornered
ˈkɔr nərdcor·nered
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Princeton's WordNet
at bay(p), cornered, trapped, treedadjective
forced to turn and face attackers
"a stag at bay"; "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a trapped animal"
Antonyms:
free
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But a cornered cat may behave differently from when the cat is free. And if they (Western states) push Iran in that direction, then it’s no longer Iran’s fault.
He's attacking right now because he has a goal. And he's not going to let up on this goal. He's not [ at ] a point in time where he can show this kind of weakness, so he has to keep going, so, the question is does he feel confident enough -- despite his claims of everything being on track. Clearly, that's not the case -- does he feel comfortable enough that he is on the right track that he just sticks with that, or is he feeling more and more cornered ?
It appears that he might do the right thing, but only when supervised and cornered like a rat.
Yes, we have conducted solidarity with other peoples that could be considered terrorism -- when we were cornered, when we were strongly harassed, we had no other choice but to give up or to fight back.
We cornered one suspect and we tried to negotiate for several hours - negotiations broke down, we had an exchange of gunfire with the suspect, we saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was.
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