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Explore the daily comic strip "Cornered" by Mike Baldwin, featuring humorous and witty takes on everyday situations.
Synonyms for CORNERED: monopolized, hogged, bogarted, engrossed, consumed, owned, possessed, absorbed; Antonyms of CORNERED: avoided, shunned, escaped, eschewed, evaded, shook, eluded, ducked.
adjective. having corners (usually used in combination): a six-cornered room. having a given number of positions; sided (usually used in combination): a four-cornered debate. forced into an awkward, embarrassing, or inescapable position: a cornered debater; a cornered fox.
Merriam-Webster unabridged. The meaning of CORNER is the point where converging lines, edges, or sides meet : angle. How to use corner in a sentence.
Cornered is a 1945 American mystery thriller film noir starring Dick Powell and directed by Edward Dmytryk. This is the second teaming of Powell and Dmytryk (after Murder, My Sweet). The screenplay was written by John Paxton with uncredited help from Ben Hecht.
Rougon sends Gerard to a police station in Marseilles, and while he is there, a call comes in that the police have Jarnac cornered in a house in a nearby village. By the time Gerard and the others arrive, however, all that survives of the village is the charred remains of a house.
Definition of corner verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Cornered: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale. Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.
adjective. forced to turn and face attackers. “she had me cornered between the porch and her car”. synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed. unfree. hampered and not free; not able to act at will.
Postwar noir about collaborationism and the political response to fascism. After World War II, there's nothing left for collaborators to do but pretend to be dead and organize from the shadows, while anti-collaborators are too traumatized by the events of the war to effectively fight back.
