Beleaguer: alternatives and connections

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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A mound or small hill.

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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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An engine for casting stones.

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The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of th…

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The European bunting.

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One who, or that which, annoys.

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One who, or that which, annoys.

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One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.

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One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.

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One who teases or vexes.

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One who teases or vexes.

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An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place…

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To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

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A bugbear; anything which terrifies.

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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.

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To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.

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To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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