Definition of "beleaguers" [beleaguers]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beleaguer. (verb)

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• "This educational inequity exacerbates the wealth gap that beleaguers Egypt's economy."
• "It's turning the anxiety and depression that beleaguers us, if you like, on its head."
• "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."