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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
beleaguer .
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Examples
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This educational inequity exacerbates the wealth gap that beleaguers Egypt's economy.
Elizabeth Hampton: Egyptian Educators Fight the Good Fight Elizabeth Hampton 2011
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This educational inequity exacerbates the wealth gap that beleaguers Egypt's economy.
Elizabeth Hampton: Egyptian Educators Fight the Good Fight Elizabeth Hampton 2011
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This educational inequity exacerbates the wealth gap that beleaguers Egypt's economy.
Elizabeth Hampton: Egyptian Educators Fight the Good Fight Elizabeth Hampton 2011
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It's turning the anxiety and depression that beleaguers us, if you like, on its head.
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It's turning the anxiety and depression that beleaguers us, if you like, on its head.
Archbishop: keynote address at the Methodist Conference 2004
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After breakfast I carried my letter up-stairs, and having secured myself by turning the key in the door, I began to study the outside of my treasure: it was some minutes before I could get over the direction and penetrate the seal; one does not take a strong place of this kind by instant storm — one sits down awhile before it, as beleaguers say.
Villette 2003
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Of General "Joe" Hooker, it was said in the press and in the Washington hotels that he was the "Man on Horseback," and would, at the final success of clearing out the rebel beleaguers, set up as dictator.
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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Of General “Joe” Hooker, it was said in the press and in the Washington hotels that he was the “Man on Horseback,” and would, at the final success of clearing out the rebel beleaguers, set up as dictator.
The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907
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Turnus undaunted harangues his men and beleaguers the camp (145-198).
The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902
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My glory is in my own heart; shame beleaguers me about.
Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884
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