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Beleaguered vs Leaguer - What's the difference?

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Leaguer is a related term of beleaguered.



As verbs the difference between beleaguered and leaguer

is that beleaguered is past tense of beleaguer while leaguer is to besiege; to beleaguer.

As an adjective beleaguered

is besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.

As a noun leaguer is

a siege.

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)

    • leaguer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A siege
    • We must break the leaguer of the city.
  • The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
    • (Ben Jonson)
  • A measure of liquid
    • Excise duty had to be paid on each leaguer of brandy exported. (1794, Cape of Good Hope)
    Related terms
    *beleaguered

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To besiege; to beleaguer.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually in compounds) A person in a league
    • I'm not a major-leaguer ; I just play baseball.