CORNERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cornered mean? 

• CORNERED (adjective)
  The adjective CORNERED has 1 sense:

1. forced to turn and face attackers

  Familiarity information: CORNERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORNERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forced to turn and face attackers

Synonyms:

at bay; cornered; trapped; treed

Context example:

like a trapped animal

Similar:

unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)

 Context examples 

Cornered in the right-angle of the poop and galley, he sprang like a cat to the top of the cabin and ran aft.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He avoided them and passed down the porch, but they cornered him against a rocking-chair and the railing.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Time and again he was cornered, and the thing repeated, though he was in poor condition, or Buck could not so easily have overtaken him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Across the table from him, cater-cornered, at Mr. Morse's right, sat Judge Blount, a local superior court judge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But more than once, stealing into the room, when it was her watch off, she would catch the two men glaring ferociously at each other, wild animals the pair of them, in Hans's face the lust to kill, in Dennin's the fierceness and savagery of the cornered rat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Just glance at your draggled skirts, for instance. Look at those three-cornered tears. And such a waist!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Holding his club prepared to strike, he drew in on his cornered quarry.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The wolf whirled about, pivoting on his hind legs after the fashion of Joe and of all cornered husky dogs, snarling and bristling, clipping his teeth together in a continuous and rapid succession of snaps.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The canvas was heavy and hard, and she sewed with the regular sailor’s palm and three-cornered sail-needle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The boy pursued him, and he, a stranger in the village, fled between two tepees to find himself cornered against a high earth bank.

(White Fang, by Jack London)