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Beleaguer   /bɪlˈigər/   Listen
Beleaguer

verb
(past & past part. beleaguered; pres. part. beleaguering)
1.
Annoy persistently.  Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease.
2.
Surround so as to force to give up.  Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround.






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"Beleaguer" Quotes from Famous Books



... so callous, so steeped in folly, that the tinsel of Vanity Fair, the paraphernalia of fashion, or all the thousand small fiends that beleaguer the female soul, could successfully lure her imagination from holy themes, when sitting in front of the pulpit, she yet sees through the open windows where butterflies like happy souls flutter in and out the motionless chiselled cenotaph that rests like a sentinel above the pulseless ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson



Words linked to "Beleaguer" :   dun, torment, assail, rag, seal off, tease, attack, blockade, bedevil, ebb, crucify, frustrate



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