Find the word definition

Wiktionary
beleaguers

vb. (en-third-person singular of: beleaguer)

Usage examples of "beleaguers".

While Dares traverses and shifts his place, And, like a captain who beleaguers round Some strong-built castle on a rising ground, Views all th' approaches with observing eyes: This and that other part in vain he tries, And more on industry than force relies.

When the fleet of any nation actually beleaguers the port of its enemy, no other has a right to enter their line, any more than their line of battle in the open sea, or their lines of circumvallation, or of encampment, or of battle array on land.

I shall take care to send it toward the left, where it will not hit the leaping band of mocking beleaguers.