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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
cornered
    adj 1: forced to turn and face attackers; "a stag at bay"; "she
           had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a
           trapped animal" [syn: at bay(p), cornered, trapped,
           treed]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Corner \Cor"ner\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cornered (-n?rd); p. pr.
   & vb. n. Cornering.]
   1. To drive into a corner.
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   2. To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless
      embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
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   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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cornered \Cor"nered\ (-n?rd), p. a.
   1 Having corners or angles.
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   2. In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.
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Thesaurus Results for Cornered:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
V-shaped, Y-shaped, 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, zigzag
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