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追い詰める · ichidan verb

Meanings

ichidan verb, transitive verb

corner; drive into a corner; track down

Used both physically (chasing someone into a confined space) and figuratively (pressing someone into a situation with no escape).

〈人ひと〉を追おい詰つめるto corner/drive someone into a corner
警けい察さつは犯はん人にんを路ろ地じの奥おくまで追おい詰つめた。
The police cornered the criminal at the end of the alley.
〈場ば所しょ〉に追おい詰つめるto corner someone into a place (with no escape)
ネコはネズミを壁かべ際ぎわに追おい詰つめた。
The cat cornered the mouse against the wall.
質しつ問もんで〈人ひと〉を追おい詰つめるto press someone with questions until they have no way to answer
記き者しゃは鋭するどい質しつ問もんで大だい臣じんを追おい詰つめた。
The reporter pressed the minister hard with sharp questions.
〈人ひと〉を精せい神しん的てきに追おい詰つめるto psychologically corner someone (leave them mentally with no escape)
上じょう司しの厳きびしい言こと葉ばが彼かれを精せい神しん的てきに追おい詰つめた。
His boss's harsh words pushed him into a mental corner.

追おい込こむN1
追い込む is a broader word for driving something in (livestock, printing, pushing oneself in training), while 追い詰める stresses the final stage of cornering someone with no way out.
責せめるN3
責める means to blame or criticize someone, whereas 追い詰める describes pushing someone into a position with no escape, which may or may not involve verbal criticism.
苦くるしめるN1
苦しめる focuses on causing someone pain or suffering, while 追い詰める focuses on the act of trapping someone so they have no options left.
手てが回まわるN1
追い詰める means to actively corner or hunt someone down, whereas 手が回る expresses the same closing-in from the pursued person's point of view, often as 手が回っている.

詰つめるN3
詰める shares the kanji 詰め with 追い詰める but on its own usually means to pack, stuff, or shorten something, not to corner someone.

Compound of 追い (continuative form of 追う 'to chase') + 詰める 'to pack, to stuff, to press'. Literally 'to chase and pack in'.