Beleaguer
[bɪ'liːgə]
Definition
(v. t.) To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
Checker: Sherman
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Besiege, invest, beset, lay siege to.
Inputed by Darlene
Definition
v.t. to lay siege to.—n. Beleag′uerment.
Checker: Norris
Examples
- The crusaders beleaguered Prague, but failed to take it, and they experienced a series of reverses that ended in their retreat from Bohemia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Affairs soon approached a crisis within the beleaguered city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Beleaguered Paris communicates with outer world through Micro-Photographs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We are beleaguered. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Meanwhile, the lord of the beleaguered and endangered castle lay upon a bed of bodily pain and mental agony. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It might do in marching to relieve a beleaguered garrison, but not to make an assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Theodore