[ US /bɪˈɫiɡɝ/ ]
[ UK /bɪlˈiːɡɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. annoy persistently
    The children teased the boy because of his stammer
  2. surround so as to force to give up
    The Turks besieged Vienna
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How To Use beleaguer In A Sentence

  • Later presidents tried to revive it to conjure up domestic support for their beleaguered policies.
  • The beleaguered prime minister is coming under yet more pressure.
  • The first was to do some fact-finding, and the second was to lend some support to a beleaguered profession.
  • The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back. A June Defection
  • We sought to measure the psychic state of freedom, relaxation, and comfort versus that of anxiety, drivenness, and beleaguerment.
  • In the process the British created their national identity — as the special people of a small, beleaguered island — which compelled them to see their kin, the Americans, as a distinct people barbarized by their savage continent. 1812 and All That: A New Country at War
  • It was an invitation to his beleaguered opponent, but Hewitt might as well have been meaning the delivery of the championship.
  • Civilian trap in the beleaguer city has been airlifted to safety.
  • The arrival of the fresh medical supplies was a welcome sight for the beleaguered doctors working in the refugee camps.
  • Attention, beleaguered savers: Banks across the nation, including Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Northern Trust Corp., are bumping up rates on longer-term certificates of deposit. CD Rates Start Ticking Up
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