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Meanings of treed in English

Forced to turn and face attackers.

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Examples for "trapped"
1
The plan looked good on paper, but it was booby-trapped with nonstarters.
NY Magazine
2
The app could ask this question: You're trapped in a pet store.
Wired
3
He had been trapped behind glass in a control room, officials said.
Radio NZ
4
He said Berlin had been trapped between conflicting demands in recent months.
The Irish Times
5
The man in the tower was trapped; Martin, too, would be arrested.
The Brown Mask
1
But not too simple: That's a market the unwieldy throw-bots have cornered.
Wired
2
He was unlocking his car, almost home free, when Bonnie cornered him.
Rock my world
3
At this stage the Cooperative Bank seems to have cornered the market.
Radio NZ
4
A cornered traitor is unlikely to respond according to strict court etiquette.
The Silver Pigs
5
They all want you, but I seem to have cornered the market.
The Centauri Device
1
Keeping Angela Merkel at bay might be a good place to start.
The Irish Times
2
She had a great deal of experience keeping such panic at bay.
The irish warrior
3
That means making hard calls today that keep this virus at bay.
Radio NZ
4
So we shouldn't be surprised that he's kept middle age at bay.
The Irish Times
5
Outside the capital, warlords are kept at bay largely by U.N. troops.
Reuters
Usage of treed in English
1
If it hadn't been for him, I'd have treed you long ago.
The Lost Sisterhood
2
All that might be heard in woodland edges, marshland or treed areas.
The Irish Times
3
Two of the boys were treed by bears and Oje rescued them.
Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds; Or, The Signal from the Hills
4
Whatever the prey, it was treed, for the voice kept one place.
Rolf in the Woods
5
They had me treed like a raccoon on top of this building.
Man on the run
6
Tige and the pup went down with me an' treed a cougar.
The Last of the Plainsmen
7
But if he was treed, and Bram happened to have a rifle-
The Golden Snare
8
My sister was treed by a pack from nine o'clock until one.
Old Rail Fence Corners: The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
9
I treed you an' in a minnit I'm agoin' to assassinate you.
Tales of lonely trails
10
I thought it was the stable dog that had treed Simon Cameron!
Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
11
Why was Ike's rifle not heard if he saw the bear treed?
The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
12
They stopped momentarily in a sparsely treed area that was strewn with boulders.
Kill bin laden: a delta force commander's account of the hunt fo...
13
One night we treed three coons in a big hollow oak.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
14
He saw me at the same time and we both treed.
Betty Zane
15
The square, he argued, was so small and so thickly treed.
Ladder of years: a novel
16
But the dogs soon treed him again an' we got him.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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