Beleaguered
[bɪ'liɡɚd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Beleaguer
Editor: Pasquale
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.
Editor: Pasquale