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Beleaguered - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As an adjective beleaguered

is besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.

As a verb beleaguered

is past tense of beleaguer.

beleaguered

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.
  • *1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 220:
  • *:4,500 British and Indian troops and twelve thousand camp-followers, including some three dozen British wives, children and nannies, found themselves beleaguered in what Kaye described as little better than ‘sheep-folds on the plain’.
  • a beleaguered stronghold
    a beleaguered town
  • Beset by trouble or difficulty.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
  • , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.}}
    a beleaguered ego
    a beleaguered identity
    a beleaguered real estate market

    Antonyms

    * unbeleaguered

    Verb

    (head)
  • (beleaguer)
  • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.