| 单词 | beleaguer |
| 释义 | beleaguer (once / 2692 pages) v Beleaguer means to pester or badger with persistence. A babysitter might find annoying the children who beleaguer her with requests for candy, cookies, games, and piggyback rides all at the same time. Beleaguer originally meant to lay siege to, and originates from a 16th century Dutch term which meant to camp all around. It was not until later that beleaguer came to mean harass or bother in a determined way. Remember that there is a league in the middle of be-league-r and the spelling will be easy. WORD FAMILYbeleaguer: beleaguered, beleaguering, beleaguers USAGE EXAMPLESThe call deprived the Trojans’ suddenly beleaguered defense of its top tackler. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) I just felt instantly beleaguered in a very familiar way. Salon(Dec 30, 2016) A different kind of ambiguity arises in the solo arias, where tensions between voice and accompaniment often conjure the desperation of the beleaguered soul. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1v annoy persistently Syn|Hyper badger, bug, pester, tease bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment treat cruelly 2v surround so as to force to give up Syn|Hypo|Hyper besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround blockade, seal off impose a blockade on ebbhem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb assail, attack launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with |
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