Beleaguer

Definitions: Beleaguer

Beleaguer

Verb

1. Annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer".

2. Surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna".

Date "beleaguer" was first used: 1589. (references)

Note: Beleaguer \Be*lea"guer\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Beleaguered; present participle verb or noun Beleaguering.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Beleaguer

Synonyms: badger (v), besiege (v), bug (v), circumvent (v), harass (v), hem in (v), pester (v), surround (v), tease (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Attack	Beset, besiege, beleaguer; lay siege to, invest, open the trenches, plant a battery, sap, mine; storm, board, scale the walls.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Beleaguer

English words defined with "beleaguer": Beleaguered ♦ Inleaguer ♦ Leaguer. (references)

Language		Translations for "beleaguer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rrethoj (begird, beset, besiege, border on, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close in, close on, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, entwine, envelop, environ, fence in, flank, fold, gird, girdle, hedge in, hem, inclose, invest, lap, leaguer, pocket, rail, rim, ring, round up, span, surround, wreathe). (various references)

Arabic		‏حاصر (besiege, blockade, constrict, invest). (various references)

Bulgarian		обкръжавам (beset, circle, embosom, encircle, encompass, engird, envelop, environ, hoop, invest, rabble, rim, ring, surround). (various references)

Chinese		围�"� (Beleaguered, Beleaguering, Besiege, Besieged, Besieging, Mobbed, Mobbing). (various references)

Czech		obléhat (besiege). (various references)

French		encercler (begird, beset). (various references)

German		belagern (besiege, invest, lay siege to, siege). (various references)

Greek		πολιορκώ (besiege). (various references)

Hungarian		ostromol (besiege, siege, to assault, to beleaguer, to besiege, to obsess). (various references)

Italian		assediare (beset, besiege). (various references)

Manx		cruinnaghey mygeayrt (encircle, encirclement, surround). (various references)

Pig Latin		eleaguerbay

Portuguese		sitiar (besiege, invest heavily, lay siege to), cercar (bar up, barrier in, besiege, cincture, close, compass, coop, corral, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, hedge, hurdler, impound, inclose, ring, ring up, surround). (various references)

Romanian		asedia (beset, besiege). (various references)

Russian		осаждать (besiege, deposit, surround). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		opkoliti (begird, besiege, hoop, invest, ring, surround), mučiti (agonize, ail, excruciate, gnaw, harass, mortify, nettle, persecute, plague, rack, rankle, tantalize, torment, torture). (various references)

Spanish		sitiar (besiege, invest, surround). (various references)

Swedish		belägra (beset, besiege). (various references)

Turkish		rahat vermemek (badger, beset, bother, disturb), kuşatmak (begird, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, cincture, circle, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, envelop, environ, equip, gird, girdle, Girt, girth, hedge in, hedge round, hem about, hem around, hem in, inclose, invest, lay siege to, ring, shut in, surround, zone), etrafını sarmak (environ, ring, ring in, round, surround, twine about, twine around), üstüne gelmek (bear down on, come at, come down on, come on, come upon, hang over, overlap). (various references)

Ukranian		робити облогу, оточувати (bank, beset, besiege, box, circle, compass, cordon, embosom, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enlace, environ, gird, girdle, girth, hang about, hem about, hem in, inclose, mob, palisade, ring, skirt, surround, zone). (various references)

Welsh		gwarchae (besiege, blockade, siege). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Dutch	700-Modern	belegeren. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "beleaguer": beleaguered, beleaguering, beleaguerment, beleaguerments, beleaguers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Beleaguer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balnaguard, Belaguer, beleager, beleague, beleagued, beleaguere, beleagure, beleagured, beleguer, bellenger, Berengier, Berlinguer, Bilagare. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "beleaguer" (pronounced bulē"ger)
4	-l ē" g er	leaguer.
3	-ē" g er	eager, Eger, meager.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-g-l-r-u"
	-2 letters: auberge, leaguer.
	-3 letters: barege, bargee, beagle, beluga, bugler, bulger, burgee, burgle, galere, garble, glebae, league, regale, reglue.
	-4 letters: abele, abler, aglee, agree, argle, argue, auger, bagel, baler, barge, belga, blare, blear, bluer, bugle, bulge, eager, eagle, eagre, gable, gelee, glare, gleba, glebe, gluer, grebe, gruel, gular, lager, laree, large, leger, luger, ragee, rebel.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-e-g-l-r-u"
	+1 letter: beleaguers.
	+2 letters: beleaguered.
	+3 letters: beleaguering.
	+4 letters: beleaguerment.
	+5 letters: beleaguerments.
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