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CORNERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Forced to turn and face attackers
Example:
like a trapped animal
Synonyms:
at bay; cornered; trapped; treed
Classified under:
Similar:
unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb corner
Context examples:
It was the she-wolf who had first caught the sound of men's voices and the whining of the sled-dogs; and it was the she-wolf who was first to spring away from the cornered man in his circle of dying flame.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Under the dripping bare lilac trees a large open car was coming up the drive. It stopped. Daisy's face, tipped sideways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
