Usually means: Surrounding with military forces; besieging.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. beleaguering: Merriam-Webster
  2. beleaguering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. beleaguering: Vocabulary.com
  4. beleaguering: Wordnik
  5. beleaguering: Wiktionary
  6. Beleaguering, beleaguering: Dictionary.com
  7. Beleaguering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. beleaguering: Rhymezone
  9. Beleaguering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. beleaguering: FreeDictionary.org
  11. beleaguering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. beleaguering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. beleaguering: Legal dictionary

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  1. beleaguering: Encyclopedia

(Note: See beleaguer as well.)

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

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