beleaguered

adjective

be·​lea·​guered bi-ˈlē-gərd 

bē-

: suffering or being subjected to constant or repeated trouble or harassment

an economically beleaguered city

With its life-support system cut off, the beleaguered college has embarked on a tortuous campaign to keep going.

—Lucinda Harper

… as he evolved from conformist to opportunist to reformer to revolutionary to beleaguered leader.

—Philip Taubman

Examples of beleaguered in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Even without Curry on Sunday, the Warriors had a significant talent advantage over the beleaguered Jazz, who have lost Walker Kessler, John Collins, Lauri Markkanen and Jordan Clarkson to injuries. —Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024

Both state and federal water projects pull water out of the beleaguered estuary and ship it south, primarily to reservoirs for farms in the San Joaquin Valley. —Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 8 Apr. 2024

Blinken, who is in France and is expected to discuss Haiti with President Emmanuel Macron, talked with Ali about efforts to support the transitional presidential council and a Multinational Security Support mission led by Kenya to help Haiti’s beleaguered police. —Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024

This has already been borne out in elections across Europe, from Sweden to the Netherlands, where far-right parties outmaneuvered the doom-mongering of a beleaguered liberal establishment. —Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024

Gangs have laid siege to Port-au-Prince's airport, and warfare between the criminal groups, the country's beleaguered authorities and bands of vigilantes have made traveling by road treacherous. —Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024

Earlier this year, the BFI unveiled its annual report for 2023 which, once again, showed that the U.K.’s beleaguered independent sector had been further squeezed. —Alex Ritman, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024

Or is a comeback on the horizon for Paramount Global? More than four years after Shari Redstone won the battle to merge Viacom and CBS, the entertainment mogul is at a crossroads in the M&A soap opera that threatens to envelop her beloved but beleaguered media empire. —Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024

Boeing announced Monday that three executives were stepping down or retiring from the beleaguered aircraft company: CEO David Calhoun, chairman of the board Larry Kellner, and former Boeing Commercial Airplanes head Stan Deal. —Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of beleaguer

First Known Use

1644, in the meaning defined above