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  • verb Present participle of beleaguer.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack

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Examples

  • The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back.

    A June Defection Berit Ellingsen 2011

  • A new book by British psychoanalyst David Tuckett, Minding the Markets, published this month by Palgrave and sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking, may just give us hope for understanding the bewildering and dangerous large group political phenomena that are beleaguering and paralyzing our country.

    Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Fantastic Objects, Excited Stories and Dreadful Politics Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon 2011

  • A new book by British psychoanalyst David Tuckett, Minding the Markets, published this month by Palgrave and sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking, may just give us hope for understanding the bewildering and dangerous large group political phenomena that are beleaguering and paralyzing our country.

    Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Fantastic Objects, Excited Stories and Dreadful Politics Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon 2011

  • The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back.

    A June Defection Berit Ellingsen 2011

  • A new book by British psychoanalyst David Tuckett, Minding the Markets, published this month by Palgrave and sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking, may just give us hope for understanding the bewildering and dangerous large group political phenomena that are beleaguering and paralyzing our country.

    Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Fantastic Objects, Excited Stories and Dreadful Politics Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon 2011

  • A new book by British psychoanalyst David Tuckett, Minding the Markets, published this month by Palgrave and sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking, may just give us hope for understanding the bewildering and dangerous large group political phenomena that are beleaguering and paralyzing our country.

    Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Fantastic Objects, Excited Stories and Dreadful Politics Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon 2011

  • A new book by British psychoanalyst David Tuckett, Minding the Markets, published this month by Palgrave and sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking, may just give us hope for understanding the bewildering and dangerous large group political phenomena that are beleaguering and paralyzing our country.

    Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Fantastic Objects, Excited Stories and Dreadful Politics Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon 2011

  • A new book by British psychoanalyst David Tuckett, Minding the Markets, published this month by Palgrave and sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking, may just give us hope for understanding the bewildering and dangerous large group political phenomena that are beleaguering and paralyzing our country.

    Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Fantastic Objects, Excited Stories and Dreadful Politics Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon 2011

  • A new book by British psychoanalyst David Tuckett, Minding the Markets, published this month by Palgrave and sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking, may just give us hope for understanding the bewildering and dangerous large group political phenomena that are beleaguering and paralyzing our country.

    Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Fantastic Objects, Excited Stories and Dreadful Politics Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon 2011

  • In this video from CNN, CBC News reports on a feathered foe beleaguering a local postal worker in a Calgary, Canada neighborhood.

    Hawk Attacks Postal Worker In Canada, Has To Wear Helmet (VIDEO) 2010

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