beleaguer

/bɪlˈiːɡɐ/

/bɪˈɫiɡɝ/

to beleaguer

MAIN VERB

annoy persistently

synonyms : badger

surround so as to force to give up

synonyms : besiege

Examples

1. The world is beleaguered in a way.

2. But they were beleaguered by these Moorish groups, in other words native peoples of the North African desert.

3. The United States feels itself to be beleaguered.

4. Then there's the story of Job, the man beleaguered by tragedy after tragedy as he's caught in a divine tug-of-war between good and evil.