CORNERED Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

cornered

verb

past tense of corner

as in monopolized

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as in accosted

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Verb

Dishwasher racks are valuable real estate that shouldn’t be monopolized by your cat and his Fancy Feast.

— John Hodgman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
At times of heightened tensions, the Houthis have used the Bab el-Mandeb as a geopolitical bargaining tool, disrupting the passage of trade in a similar fashion to how Tehran has monopolized the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the Iran war.

— Tiago Ventura, Time, 16 July 2026

Definition of monopolized

Verb

Prosecutors presented the state’s case over six days, laying out for the judge how the former plastic surgeon accosted Steven Cozzi in the bathroom of his law office on a Tuesday morning, and Cozzi was never seen again.

— Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
At half-time of the mostly engrossing, controversial Manchester derby on Sunday, Marc Guehi was accosted by a Sky Sports reporter and asked a few questions.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of accosted

Verb

In one inexhaustible untitled image from 1980, the couple sits in elegant dress at a candlelit table engrossed in each other’s company, while the young, shirtless son adjusts the channel on a television perched on the near side of the same table.

— Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
After traveling to Oakland from Colorado, Lori Schott read aloud a diary entry from her daughter, Annalee, who died by suicide at 18 after becoming engrossed with Meta’s apps.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of engrossed

Verb

In Job, a breakout Off–Off Broadway work that made it to Broadway, a tech employee confronted her therapist with a gun and demanded to be reinstated at her job, and then the twists ensued from there.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
Baron Cohen was aware of the concerns at the time, not least because Walker confronted him at an industry event.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of confronted

Verb

The golden doodles would always bark when someone approached the house, said Ashley’s father, Todd Smith.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
Kaepernick said that amid his collusion grievance, the NFL approached him and teammate Eric Reid, who knelt with him, about becoming faces of a new social justice campaign.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of approached

Verb

Serbia is formally seeking membership in the European Union, but the effort has stalled under Vucic, who has faced accusations of clamping down on democratic freedoms, including the media.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
No two knee injuries are the same, of course, and Seguin faced an obstacle that Mahomes apparently didn’t have to deal with.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of faced

Verb

In Cuba, for instance, the single format is dominant, and very few artists have dared to create a true concept album.

— Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026
Fonda’s flawless silver pixie changed that, revealing his rare ability to transform gray hair from some something to be concealed into something to be expertly cultivated — a technique few colorists had dared to master.

— Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of dared

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