beleaguers

Verb

beleaguer (third-person singular simple present beleaguers, present participle beleaguering, simple past and past participle beleaguered)

1. To besiege; to surround with troops.
   • I have read in some old marvellous tale, / Some legend strange and vague, / That a midnight host of spectres pale / Beleaguered the walls of Prague. // Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, / With the wan moon overhead, / There stood, as in an awful dream, / The army of the dead.1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Beleaguered City”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, stanzas 1–2, page 22

   Synonyms:

   beset, belay, encircle, invest, lay siege to

2. To vex, harass, or beset.

   Synonyms:

   badger, harry, plague, bait, bedevil, persecute, dog, bullyrag, besiege, bug

3. To exhaust.

   Synonyms:

   do for, wear down, exhaust, fatigue, fordo, gas out, get down, jade, knock up, poop