Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /bɪˈliːɡəd/
Översättning
Adjektiv
1.yıpranmış

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.
  2. Beset by trouble or difficulty.

Exempel

  • 4,500 British and Indian troops and twelve thousand camp-followers, including some three dozen British wives, children and nannies, found themselves beleaguered in what Kaye described as little better than ‘sheep-folds on the plain’.
  • a beleaguered stronghold
  • a beleaguered town
  • Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.
  • a beleaguered ego
  • a beleaguered identity
  • a beleaguered real estate market

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore beleaguered
Superlativmost beleaguered

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