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Beleaguered vs Surrounded - What's the difference?

beleaguered | surrounded |

As verbs the difference between beleaguered and surrounded

is that beleaguered is past tense of beleaguer while surrounded is past tense of surround.

As an adjective beleaguered

is besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.

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)

    • surrounded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (surround)

    • surround

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
  • (label) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
  • To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
    • (Fuller)

    Synonyms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
  • * 1972 , 670-52042-x, chapter 15, page 283:
    • He drifted through the room, avoiding the furniture by instinct, closed the door that led to the passage, and only then flicked on his flashlight.
    It swept around the room, picking out a desk, a telephone, a wall of bookshelves, and a deep armchair, and finally settled on a handsome fireplace with a large surround of red brick.

    Derived terms

    * surround sound