Definition for Beleaguering:

• the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack

Synonyms for Beleaguering:

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • besieging,
  • beleaguering,
  • military blockade,
  • siege.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • beat,
  • pursuing,
  • smothering,
  • teasing,
  • pester,
  • intercept,
  • Afflicting,
  • worrying,
  • tantalising,
  • eluding,
  • outwitting,
  • overreach,
  • baiting,
  • overreaching,
  • coding,
  • Gnawing,
  • Walling,
  • harass,
  • raging,
  • outwit,
  • Dunning,
  • disturbing,
  • outfox,
  • sidestepping,
  • dodge,
  • surrounding,
  • ducking,
  • sidestep,
  • heckling,
  • provoke,
  • dogging,
  • elude,
  • Bedeviling,
  • fencing,
  • beset,
  • Bedevilling,
  • tease,
  • sieging,
  • wiretapping,
  • rounding,
  • bedevil,
  • blockading,
  • badgering,
  • troubling,
  • besiege,
  • Harassing,
  • rallying,
  • Fudging,
  • Chivying,
  • Crucifying,
  • loosening,
  • Plaguing,
  • surround,
  • Evading,
  • Oppressing,
  • loosen,
  • Intercepting,
  • fluffing,
  • Circumventing,
  • Parrying,
  • frustrating,
  • beleaguer,
  • pestering,
  • bordering,
  • Twitting,
  • outsmarting,
  • Beleaguerer,
  • bugging,
  • Bothering,
  • tapping,
  • outsmart,
  • annoying,
  • hassling,
  • Harrying,
  • dodging,
  • evade,
  • tantalizing,
  • provoking,
  • Carding,
  • circumvent,
  • taunting,
  • outfoxing,
  • Environing.

Beleaguering Sentence Examples:

• Over and over again, accompanied by his personal attendants, he would dash out of the walls and drive in the enemy's outposts, first at one point and then at another of the beleaguering circle.

• By the 22nd of April the garrison of Landrecies was contained, the beleaguering troops had encircled it, and the siege was begun.

Homophones for Beleaguering:

• belligerence, belligerency.

Hyponym for Beleaguering:

• n.

  • act
    blockade, encirclement.