back oneself into a corner in English

Forms: backs oneself into a corner [present, singular, third-person], backing oneself into a corner [participle, present], backed oneself into a corner [participle, past], backed oneself into a corner [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} back oneself into a corner (third-person singular simple present backs oneself into a corner, present participle backing oneself into a corner, simple past and past participle backed oneself into a corner)

Inflected forms

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "backs oneself into a corner",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backing oneself into a corner",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backed oneself into a corner",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backed oneself into a corner",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "back oneself into a corner (third-person singular simple present backs oneself into a corner, present participle backing oneself into a corner, simple past and past participle backed oneself into a corner)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of paint oneself into a corner"
      ],
      "id": "en-back_oneself_into_a_corner-en-verb-IEJ7xCPE",
      "links": [
        [
          "paint oneself into a corner",
          "paint oneself into a corner#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "paint oneself into a corner"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "back oneself into a corner"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "backs oneself into a corner",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backing oneself into a corner",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backed oneself into a corner",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backed oneself into a corner",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "back oneself into a corner (third-person singular simple present backs oneself into a corner, present participle backing oneself into a corner, simple past and past participle backed oneself into a corner)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of paint oneself into a corner"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "paint oneself into a corner",
          "paint oneself into a corner#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "paint oneself into a corner"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "back oneself into a corner"
}

Download raw JSONL data for back oneself into a corner meaning in English (1.1kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"back oneself into a corner" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms