Beleaguers

Word BELEAGUERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Beleaguers"

What do we mean by beleaguers?

To besiege; to surround with troops.

To vex, harass, or beset.

To exhaust.

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The word "beleaguers" in example sentences

This educational inequity exacerbates the wealth gap that beleaguers Egypt's economy. ❋ Elizabeth Hampton (2011)

It's turning the anxiety and depression that beleaguers us, if you like, on its head. ❋ Unknown (2004)

After breakfast I carried my letter up-stairs, and having secured myself by turning the key in the door, I began to study the outside of my treasure: it was some minutes before I could get over the direction and penetrate the seal; one does not take a strong place of this kind by instant storm — one sits down awhile before it, as beleaguers say. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Of General "Joe" Hooker, it was said in the press and in the Washington hotels that he was the "Man on Horseback," and would, at the final success of clearing out the rebel beleaguers, set up as dictator. ❋ Henry Llewellyn Williams (N/A)

Of General “Joe” Hooker, it was said in the press and in the Washington hotels that he was the “Man on Horseback,” and would, at the final success of clearing out the rebel beleaguers, set up as dictator. ❋ Williams, Henry L (1907)

Turnus undaunted harangues his men and beleaguers the camp (145-198). ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (1902)

My glory is in my own heart; shame beleaguers me about. ❋ Anatole France (1884)

Ah, believe me, an aristocracy is a feudal fortress which, though it has merciless beleaguers in the Jacquerie of plebeian Envy, has yet no foe so deadly as its own internal traitor of Lost Dignity! ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)

Eternal as dawn's is the comfort she gives: but the mist that beleaguers and slays ❋ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873)

One stroke of "the red right arm" above us, crushing the triumph of ages, and laughing to scorn the power of the beleaguers and the valour of the besieged! ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Towards the great Volscian army that beleaguers Rome it comes -- towards the pavilion where the Volscian captain sits in gold, with his wings outspread, it shapes its course. ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)

After breakfast I carried my letter up-stairs, and having secured myself by turning the key in the door, I began to study the outside of my treasure: it was some minutes before I could get over the direction and penetrate the seal; one does not take a strong place of this kind by instant storm -- one sits down awhile before it, as beleaguers say. ❋ Charlotte Bront�� (1835)

When the fleet of any nation actually beleaguers the port of its enemy, no other has a right to enter their line, any more than their line of battle in the open sea, or their lines of circumvallation, or of encampment, or of battle-array on land. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

When the fleet of any nation actually beleaguers the port of its enemy, no other has a right to enter their line, any more than their line of battle in the open sea, or their lines of circumvallation, or of encampment, or of battle array on land. ❋ Unknown (1760)

Israel, imagining for a single moment that Iran is the occupying state that kills at least two foreign civilians a day, beleaguers some 1.5 million people who don't have any access to the barest rudiments of their daily life and live under the continual threats of military assault and are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The secretive manner in which these guidelines are amended beleaguers civil society's attempts to collaborate with the Department of Health to develop a strategy to systematically address the TB epidemic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, like a captain, who beleaguers round Some ftrong-built caftle, on aiifing ground. ❋ Unknown (1779)

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