beleaguer

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɪˈliː.ɡə/|/bəˈliː.ɡə/    美 /bɪˈli.ɡɚ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To besiege; to surround with troops.
    — 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.
  2. To vex, harass, or beset.
  3. To exhaust.

词形变化

beleaguers present,singular,third-person beleaguering participle,present beleaguered participle,past beleaguered past beleagure alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
beleaguerer beleaguerment

词源

Borrowed from Dutch belegeren and/or Middle Low German belēgeren; equivalent to be- + lair. Compare also German belagern, Danish belejre. The English spelling was perhaps influenced by unrelated league.
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