Definition of "beleaguer" verb third-person singular simple present beleaguers , present participle beleaguering , simple past and past participle beleaguered
To besiege ; to surround with troops . quotations examples
Quotations I have read in some old marvellous tale , / Some legend strange and vague , / That a midnight host of spectres pale / Beleaguered the walls of Prague . // Beside the Moldau 's rushing stream , / With the wan moon overhead , / There stood , as in an awful dream , / The army of the dead .
1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Beleaguered City”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, stanzas 1–2, page 22