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beleaguered, ppl. a.|bɪˈliːgəd| [f. beleaguer v. + -ed1.] Besieged, invested, beset.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 69 In defence of beleagured truth. 1647J. Sprigge Angl. Rediv. iv. vii. (1854) 281 To know themselves a beleagured enemy. 1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. 165 Beleaguer'd Troy. 1852Thackeray Esmond iii. x. (1876) 416 The poor beleaguered garrison. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. iii. viii, The key of a beleaguered position. |