• n.
    ⦿a difficult or awkward situation
    lexical concept
  • competition was pushing them to the wall
  • his back was to the wall

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:wall
wn:interlingual indexili:i113551

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelwall