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beleaguer

verb
/bɪˈliː.ɡə/UK/bɪˈli.ɡɚ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch belegeren and/or Middle Low German belēgeren; equivalent to be- + lair. Compare also German belagern, Danish belejre. The English spelling was perhaps influenced by unrelated league.

  1. borrowed from belēgeren
  2. borrowed from belegeren

Definitions

  1. To besiege

    To besiege; to surround with troops.

  2. To vex, harass, or beset.

  3. To exhaust.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at beleaguer. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at beleaguer. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at beleaguer

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA