beleaguerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• beleagure

語源

Borrowed from Dutch belegeren and/or Middle Low German belēgeren; equivalent to be- +‎ lair. Compare also German belagern, Danish belejre. The English spelling was perhaps influenced by unrelated league.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /bɪˈliː.ɡə/, /bəˈliː.ɡə/
• (General American) IPA: /bɪˈli.ɡɚ/
• 韻: -iːɡə(ɹ)

動詞

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

1. To besiege; to surround with troops.

   Synonyms: beset, belay, encircle, invest, lay siege to

   • 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:

     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.

2. To vex, harass, or beset.

   Synonyms: badger, harry, plague; see also Thesaurus:pester

3. To exhaust.

   Synonyms: do for, wear down; see also Thesaurus:tire

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