Cornered is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CORNERED in dictionary:

VERB:
• CORNER, to gain control of
• force (a person or animal) into a place or situation from which it is hard to escape
• detain (someone) in conversation
• control (a market) by dominating the supply of a particular commodity
• establish a corner in (a commodity)
• (of a vehicle) go round a bend in a road
NOUN:
• a place or angle where two sides or edges meet
• the area inside a room or other space near the place where two walls or other surfaces meet
• a place where two or more streets meet
• a sharp bend in a road
• a place where two planes of rock meet at an angle of between 60° and 120°.
• a location or area, especially one regarded as secluded or remote
• a position in which one dominates the supply of a particular commodity
• a difficult or awkward situation
• a place kick taken by the attacking side from a corner of the field after the ball has been sent over the byline by a defender
• a free hit in field hockey, taken from the corner of the field.
• each of the diagonally opposite ends of the ring, where a contestant rests between rounds
• a triangular cut from the hind end of a side of bacon.
• a place where two planes of rock meet at an angle of between 60° and 120°.
• a contestant's supporters or seconds
ADJECTIVE:
• forced to turn and face attackers

Words related to CORNERED

corner8 cornering12 corners9

Words that contain CORNERED

tricornered14 catercornered18

How to use CORNERED in a sentence

• Even a ground-mouse that she cornered under a root, and dug out with her paws, escaped her fangs.
• He was mortally in terror of something more than physical death, and, like the cornered rat, he felt a sudden urge to go out and meet the danger halfway.
• For that one fleeting moment there seemed, to be something of the cornered beast in his aspect.
• As much as possible she contrived to be busy upstairs, but at least a dozen times she was fairly cornered and made the best of it.
• And, cornered in this dilemma, so I did, and used it as well as I could.
• Sin Kerry had read menace, and for all their dark beauty they had reminded him of the eyes of a cornered rat.
• Her father, a clergyman, had cornered the vanilla-bean market in Tahiti, and she was bringing an automobile and a phonograph to her home, a village in the middle of Tahiti.
• A successful highwayman showed courage of a sort, and pirate crews have been known to fight with courage or perhaps only with reckless desperation in the manner of cornered rats.
• Once, as I lay a prisoner in a rocky ravine all through the hot afternoon, I heard the rifles snapping like hounds around a cornered beast.
• Remember, no one is cornered so long as he can turn round and go back.
• The nearest point to the forest way midway between Grimcke and Long, as was apparent to the savage, who was fairly cornered.
• The Indian fights well, man for man, when fairly cornered, but at other times he is no true sportsman.
• It will not do to say that the Irish have a monopoly on stupidity, yet there have been times when I thought they nearly cornered the market.
• A raw fish, cornered in the shallows and scooped out, furnished one of the best meals he had ever tasted.
• Cornered like rats, they took small comfort from the odds.
• Cornered in the little cabin of the machine they would sell their lives as dearly as possible.
• But she was resisting him, inch by inch, fighting desperately, like a cornered cat, for her very life, yet knowing there could be only one end to that uneven conflict.
• Jimmie Dale, Larry the Bat, the Gray Seal, once uncovered, could expect as much quarter as would be given to a cornered rat.
• The brothers saved their steeds, content to keep him cornered in that end of the plateau.
• Perfectly well he saw that he was being cornered in an untenable position of half-command, half-intimacy.
• It had been my purpose, of course, to photograph this lion, and now that we had cornered him I proposed to do it.
• It is the land where the excitement of pursuit is over, and the game is securely cornered, but not yet in hand.
• Thus cornered, Dennison, too, had to state truthfully what he had just been saying.
• He was not by any means a physical coward, and possessed a good deal of the cornered kind of courage of the fighting rat.
• For fear he might do so, if too closely cornered, he threw away the ammunition.
• The American speculator cornered the market, stacked the warehouses, and demanded fifty cents a bushel.
• She thought for a terrible minute, which seemed ages long to her, that she was cornered now.
• I was not shirking a fight, but to be cornered like a trapped coyote was another matter.

Similar words containing RNER without suffix ed and without prefix co

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