beleaguered

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /bɪˈliːɡəd/

Adjective

beleaguered

1. 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
2. Beset by trouble or difficulty.

   a beleaguered ego

   a beleaguered identity

   a beleaguered real estate market

Antonyms

• unbeleaguered

Translations

• German: vom Gegner umschlossen, vom Gegner eingeschlossen, belagert
• Russian: осаждённый

Translations

• French: en difficulté, mal en point, éprouvé, assiégé, à bout de souffle
• German: angeschlagen, unter massivem Druck stehend, überlastet
• Portuguese: fustigado
• Russian: многострадальный
• Spanish: hostigado

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of beleaguer

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