cornered

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of corner.

   The detectives cornered the thief in a dead-end street.

   The escaped goat was cornered against the barn wall.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both past forms and carries every use of corner: the hunted animal, the embarrassed witness, the trader who cornered the market, the car that cornered smoothly. Only the transitive uses form a passive (the witness was cornered). A car's handling does not. Before a noun, a cornered fox is trapped, not angular. Angular is the shape adjective, as in a sharply cornered room.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having corners or angular edges rather than rounded ones.

   The architect favored sharply cornered rooms throughout the building.

   Its cornered design gave the lamp a modern, geometric look.

   Similarangular, angled, square

   Oppositerounded, curved

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