0 to cause a lot of problems or difficulties for someone:
Conflicts and uncertainties beleaguered the court during the weeks following the King's death.
A plague of doves hit the town in 1896, devouring crops and beleaguering the people.
This is an issue that has beleaguered the shellfish industry for years.
They are charged to lie in wait, beleaguer the enemy, and attack him when he is inattentive.
All over the country adult education is beleaguered and under siege: it is high time the cavalry came over the hill.
The community itself must have felt beleaguered by the spectre of racism and seemingly ignored by those who should have been its protectors.
They are forever beleaguered by demands, entreaties and supplications from all and sundry for infinite amounts of money to come from finite resources.
There is a different atmosphere in many of the schools that were beleaguered before 1997 and a new sense of optimism.
