0 having a lot of problems or difficulties: --
1 having so many difficulties that you feel as if you are being attacked from every direction: --
2 experiencing a lot of problems or strong criticism: --
3 in great financial difficulty: --
The members of that minority feel beleaguered and aggrieved, as the economy is a long way from being as buoyant as was alleged earlier today.
The old function of the last defender of a beleaguered breach in a defensive wall is noble and picturesque, but it implies defeat.
Motorists, or those who choose to speak for them, frequently claim to be a beleaguered minority, unjustly restrained by speed limits and parking restrictions.
We shall be left with beleaguered merchant shipping yards open to the fierce winds of competition, and they may very well close one after another.
They have been wrong about the impact of the recession—particularly on our beleaguered manufacturing industry.
He has this safety net where he can come in with all the power of the state against somebody who is being beleaguered.
Many policemen and women feel beleaguered and misunderstood.
Three-fifths of its capital is tied up in the beleaguered special steels sector.
