Beleaguered vs Beset - What's the difference?
beleaguered | beset |
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’.
Beset by trouble or difficulty.
*{{quote-news, year=2012
, date=May 5
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
, work=BBC Sport
(beleaguer)
(label) To surround or hem in
(label) To attack, especially from all sides
(label) To decorate something with jewels etc
(label) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice
As verbs the difference between beleaguered and beset
is that beleaguered is (beleaguer) while beset is (label) to surround or hem in.As an adjective beleaguered
is besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.beleaguered
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Adjective
(en adjective)- a beleaguered stronghold
- a beleaguered town
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- a beleaguered ego
- a beleaguered identity
- a beleaguered real estate market