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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1. Tyrone Hall:

   We are appalled at the state of negotiations. At this stage we are being cornered, we fear having to concede on too many issues that would damage the very integrity of the Paris Agreement.

2. 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.

3. Johnny Galecki:

   I met this fellow a month or two ago and he’s a hero of mine and I knew that he was a hero of Chuck [Lorre] and Bill [Prady’s], so I just accosted him and cornered him and practically made him commit on the spot to play my father, i’m really excited about it. It’s going to be a lot of fun.

4. Steve Fishman:

   At one point, Bernie Madoff cornered the hot chocolate market, bernie Madoff bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and sold Swiss Miss for a profit in the prison yard. Bernie Madoff monopolized hot chocolate ! Bernie Madoff made Swiss Miss so that if you wanted any, you had to go through Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff, once the Nasdaq chairman, used Bernie Madoff reputation and savvy to dupe sophisticated investors, regulators and Wall Street banks. Bernie Madoff confessed in December 2008 that Bernie Madoff was running a multi decade Ponzi scheme and that more than $ 65 billion Bernie Madoff claimed to have on hand for investors had dwindled to a few hundred million dollars from an original investment of about $ 20 billion. Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty to fraud and is serving a 150-year prison sentence in Butner, N.C. Fishman reportedly hosts an Audible series called.

5. 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.