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beleaguered

adj
/bɪˈliːɡəd/UK

Etymology

From beleaguer + -ed.

  1. borrowed from belēgeren
  2. borrowed from belegeren
  3. suffixed as beleaguered — “beleaguer + ed”

Definitions

  1. Besieged

    Besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.

    • a beleaguered stronghold
    • a beleaguered town
    • 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’.

  2. Beset by trouble or difficulty.

    • a beleaguered ego
    • a beleaguered identity
    • a beleaguered real estate market

  3. simple past and past participle of beleaguer

The neighborhood

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