Beleaguering

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  • verb. Present participle of beleaguer.
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  • noun. the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
    • Word Usage
    "A new book by British psychoanalyst David Tuckett, Minding the Markets, published this month by Palgrave and sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking, may just give us hope for understanding the bewildering and dangerous large group political phenomena that are beleaguering and paralyzing our country."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blockade  encirclement  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Alamo  Atlanta  Bataan  Corregidor  Dien Bien Phu  
    verb-stem
    beleaguer  
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