Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To harass; beset.
- transitive verb To surround with troops; besiege.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To besiege; surround with an army so as to preclude escape; blockade.
- Synonyms To invest, lay siege to, beset.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
besiege ; to surround with troops. - verb To
vex ,harass , orbeset .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb annoy persistently
- verb surround so as to force to give up
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Either way, until all schools are created equal, such drastic and sweeping policies will only aggravate the inconsistencies and inequities that already beleaguer our school system.
Elizabeth Hampton: Eliminating January Regents Could Hurt Some Schools Elizabeth Hampton 2011
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Serious troubles continue to beleaguer the operators of the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture that was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami.
Japan Promises to Shut Down Fukushima Reactors By Year's End 2011
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Either way, until all schools are created equal, such drastic and sweeping policies will only aggravate the inconsistencies and inequities that already beleaguer our school system.
Elizabeth Hampton: Eliminating January Regents Could Hurt Some Schools Elizabeth Hampton 2011
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Either way, until all schools are created equal, such drastic and sweeping policies will only aggravate the inconsistencies and inequities that already beleaguer our school system.
Elizabeth Hampton: Eliminating January Regents Could Hurt Some Schools Elizabeth Hampton 2011
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Serious troubles continue to beleaguer the operators of the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture that was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami.
Japan Promises to Shut Down Fukushima Reactors By Year's End 2011
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Either way, until all schools are created equal, such drastic and sweeping policies will only aggravate the inconsistencies and inequities that already beleaguer our school system.
Elizabeth Hampton: Eliminating January Regents Could Hurt Some Schools Elizabeth Hampton 2011
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At length, our leaders decided to beleaguer the city with siege machines, so that we might enter and worship the Savior at the Holy Sepulcher.
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A similar verse can be found in chapter 9, verse 5 -- which in its snipped, out of context version could read: "fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war."
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THAROOR: But Richard, where haven't we be generous -- look, after the Mumbai attacks, India deliberately chose not to adopt and beleaguer (ph) on military posturing.
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It avoids some of the diplomatic ploys of the big powers that beleaguer the international mechanisms.
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