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Synonyms for cornered
ˈkɔr nərdcor·nered

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  1. 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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  1. List of paraphrases for "cornered":

    stuck, trapped, enclaved, tricked

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How to use cornered in a sentence?

  1. Mahmoud Alavi:

    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.

  2. Beth Sanner:

    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 ?

  3. Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy:

    It appears that he might do the right thing, but only when supervised and cornered like a rat.

  4. Raul Castro:

    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.

  5. Chief David Brown:

    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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