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Beleaguering   /bɪlˈigərɪŋ/   Listen
Beleaguering

noun
1.
The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.  Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege.



Beleaguer

verb
(past & past part. beleaguered; pres. part. beleaguering)
1.
Annoy persistently.  Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease.
2.
Surround so as to force to give up.  Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround.






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"Beleaguering" Quotes from Famous Books



... the towers before beleaguering foes, Sacked cities smoked and realms were rent in twain; And commonwealths against their rivals rose, Trode out their lives and earned the curse of Cain! While in the noiseless air and light that flowed Round your far brows, ...
— Poems • William Cullen Bryant

... shall give us peace with yon other as well." Then said he to Amjad and As'ad, "Fare forth and fetch us news of these troops, for they are a mighty host, never saw I a mightier." So they opened the city gates, which the King had shut for fear of the beleaguering armies, and Amjad and As'ad went forth and, coming to the new host, found that it was indeed a mighty many. But as soon as they came to it behold, they knew that it was the army of the King of the Ebony Islands, wherein was their father, King ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton

... boldly, and an occasional shot fired toward Wauhatchee or Moccasin Point gave life to the scene. These shots could barely reach Chattanooga, and I was told that one or more shot had struck a hospital inside the lines. All along Missionary Ridge were the tents of the rebel beleaguering force; the lines of trench from Lookout up toward the Chickamauga were plainly visible; and rebel sentinels, in a continuous chain, were walking their posts in plain view, not a thousand yards off. "Why," said I, "General Grant, you are besieged;" and he said, "It is too true." Up to that ...
— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan



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