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Beleaguer   /bɪlˈigər/   Listen
verb
Beleaguer  v. t.  (past & past part. beleaguered; pres. part. beleaguering)  To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. "The wail of famine in beleaguered towns."
Synonyms: To block up; environ; invest; encompass.






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"Beleaguer" Quotes from Famous Books



... us bases to guard and beleaguer; Games to play out whether earnest or fun; Fights for the fearless and goals for the eager: Twenty, and thirty, and forty ...
— Judy of York Hill • Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett

... read in the marvellous heart of man, That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of phantoms vast and wan Beleaguer the human soul. ...
— The Haunted Hour - An Anthology • Various

... of the allies moved through Picardy towards the confines of Artois, and sat down leisurely to beleaguer Rue, a low-lying place on the banks and near the mouth of the Somme, the only town in the province which still held for the king. It was sufficiently fortified to withstand a good deal of battering, and it certainly seemed mere trifling for the great Duke of Parma ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... had ceased to beleaguer Candahar, he had withdrawn from that fortress but a very short distance, and the position he had taken up was of considerable strength. The Urgundab valley is separated on the north-west from the Candahar plain by a long precipitous ...
— The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 • Archibald Forbes

... and comfort I send thee news that his Highness Prince Rupert hath gotten a great victory over the rebels at Newark; and I have besought his Majesty that he should march into Lancashire. By two days, at farthest, these enemies who now beleaguer my house shall be cut off. We purpose to come upon them suddenly, so that they shall be taken in their own snare. I have raised L3000 on the jewels conveyed to me from Lathom by the last sally, which sum I purpose giving in largess to the ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby


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