beleaguering
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- n the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
- v annoy persistently
- v surround so as to force to give up
- Investors wish upon a starA shortage of enchantment is beleaguering the Magic Kingdom.
- His dander up, Fradkin began collaring patients, hounding civic groups, beleaguering storekeepers and factory workers for support for his scheme.
- It was she, along with then Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, who pressed the President to get more deeply involved in the crisis beleaguering the District of Columbia.