Definition of "cornered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of corner. (verb)

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• "Last fall, when my friend Dr. Goggin cornered me and asked me to address you, to inflict some remarks upon you I should say, I thought possibly I might, acquire merit in absentia."
• "That when he was last with Jess, something made him feel scared, or cornered, which is what makes him snap."
• "In most cases someone spewing the delusional, grandiose and revenge-fueled pushback of what can only be called a cornered man would be talking this way to the Starbucks barista, the clerk at CVS, the ER nurse or the last person on his cell phone list of favorites who will take his calls."