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PRONUNCIATION OF BELEAGUERMENT

beleaguerment  [bɪˈliːɡərmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BELEAGUERMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Beleaguerment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BELEAGUERMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of beleaguerment in the English dictionary

The definition of beleaguerment in the dictionary is a blockade or siege.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BELEAGUERMENT


accouterment
əˈkuːtərmənt
advertisement
ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt
agreement
əˈɡriːmənt
apartment
əˈpɑːtmənt
assessment
əˈsɛsmənt
department
dɪˈpɑːtmənt
development
dɪˈvɛləpmənt
devourment
dɪˈvaʊərmənt
document
ˈdɒkjʊmənt
element
ˈɛlɪmənt
embowerment
ɪmˈbaʊərmənt
employment
ɪmˈplɔɪmənt
engagement
ɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt
entertainment
ˌɛntəˈteɪnmənt
environment
ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt
equipment
ɪˈkwɪpmənt
pesterment
ˈpestərmənt
ponderment
ˈpɒndərmənt
sunderment
ˈsʌndərmənt
wilderment
ˈwɪldərmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BELEAGUERMENT

belaud
belay
belayer
belaying cleat
belaying pin
belch
belcher
beldam
beldame
beleaguer
beleaguered
beleap
belee
belemnite
belemnoid
Belfast
Belfort
belfried
belfries
belfry

WORDS THAT END LIKE BELEAGUERMENT

a visual impairment
betterment
bewilderment
comment
conferment
debarment
disempowerment
disinterment
dismemberment
empowerment
endangerment
endearment
ferment
garment
impairment
interment
reckless endangerment
torment
undergarment
visual impairment
wonderment

Synonyms and antonyms of beleaguerment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «beleaguerment» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BELEAGUERMENT

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बीलेगुअरमेंट
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beleaguerment
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beleaguerment
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Trends of use of beleaguerment

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BELEAGUERMENT»

The term «beleaguerment» is barely ever used and occupies the 200.123 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BELEAGUERMENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about beleaguerment

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BELEAGUERMENT»

Discover the use of beleaguerment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beleaguerment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Chronicles of Canad: Volume IV - the Beginnings of ...
CHAPTER. FIVE. BELEAGUERMENT. 1775-1776. When Carleton finally turned at bay within the walls of Quebec the British flag waved over less than a single one out of the more than a million square miles that had so recently been included ...
George M. Wrong, H. H. Langton, 2009
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The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton
BELEAGUERMENT. 1775–1776. When Carleton finally turned at bay within the walls of Quebec the British flag waved over less than a single one out of the more than a million square miles that had so recently been included within the ...
William Wood, 1935
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Constituting Communities: Theravada Buddhism and the ...
Richard Fox Young, “Imagined Beleaguerment and the Self-Representation of Mohottivatte Gunananda,” in Sri Lanka: Collective Identities Revisited, vol. 1, 181. 7. Vimal Abhayasundara, Mohottivatte Zri Gunananda Apadanaya (Colombo: S.
John Clifford Holt, Jacob N. Kinnard , Jonathan S. Walters, 2012
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Old Hicks, the Guide: Or, Adventures in the Camanche Country ...
OUR BELEAGUERMENT.—STARVATION AHEAD. 34$ effect he had produced by denouncing the old man as being in league with the conjurer, since they all knew that he had been the chief guide. This revulsion would have been fatal to the ...
Charles Wilkins Webber, 1848
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Sohn Penry, the pilgrim martyr, 1559 - 1593
... to be abandoned and exposed to the licentiousness of upstart pretenders, as far as may be in your power to prevent it. . . . It is meet that your mightinesses should consider, that in this beleaguerment of the Genevese, the beleaguerment of ...
John Waddington, 1854
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Saddam's War of Words: Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi ...
Karsh's comment that invading Kuwait had "less to do with a pre-meditated grand design than with [Saddam's] perennial sense of insecurity," is an observation which underscores the concern of beleaguerment. But the contention here is that  ...
Jerry M. Long, 2009
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The Zurich Letters, 1558 - 1579: Comprising the ...
For it is meet that your mightinesses should consider, that in this beleaguerment of the Genevese, the beleaguerment of all and every of your own several states is the thing finally aimed at; and that in the fall of that city is involved the ...
Hastings Robinson, 2004
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Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism
The humanities are in particular danger, perhaps (as Marc Renaud suggests) most of all in English-speaking countries. Certainly they are in danger all across Canada. The current beleaguerment of the humanities is in part the consequence of ...
Cynthia Sugars, 2004
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Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring: A Study ...
Left with no other recourse but beleaguerment, the Nissingers believe even this last alternative to be of no avail when, on the fourth day of the siege, Bertschi is seen stilling his hunger with straw and hay. The siege is hastily lifted thereupon, ...
Rolf R. Mueller, 1977
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The Psychoanalytic Process: Theory, Clinical Observation, ...
A MEASURE OF FREEDOM VERSUS BELEAGUERMENT We sought to measure the psychic state of freedom, relaxation, and comfort versus that of anxiety, drivenness, and beleaguerment. No standardized instrument available entirely ...
Joseph Weiss, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BELEAGUERMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term beleaguerment is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Buzz 06.25.15
... on KSBW President and General Manager Joe Heston's culinary proclivities. For more on the beleaguerment, check “Bad Week,” below. «Monterey County Weekly, Jun 15»
2
Boris Nemtsov: More than a Putin foe
... media apparatus feeds mind-boggling conspiracy theories to Russian citizenry and fuels the sense of national beleaguerment and hatred. «Foreign Policy Blogs, Mar 15»
3
I was a timid, kind, gentle-natured child, later to be spurned and …
“Go home, sir,” the authorities warned me, increasing my sense of beleaguerment. It would have made perfect sense to unleash destruction on ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
4
Into the fray: Israel's only option
For if Israel is to break out of its beleaguerment, and devise policy options that can extricate it from its increasingly perilous predicament, these ... «Jerusalem Post, Dec 14»
5
Virginia Tech Football: Running Diary For The William & Mary Game
13:23 W&M head coach Jimmy Laycock appears to be in a constant state of beleaguerment. Relax Jimmy, this is a money game, y'all are ... «Gobbler Country, Sep 14»
6
Supreme Confidence
He began by explaining that, as a jurist, he is an “originalist”—or, as he put it, in his habitual tone of pugnacious beleaguerment, one of “a small ... «The New Yorker, Jul 14»
7
Editorial: Google, Microsoft claiming Apple's crown, albeit from 1994
There's lots of evidence that Google is now following Microsoft's decline into beleaguerment, and that Microsoft still has a long way to fall before ... «Apple Insider, Jul 14»
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Daniel Arnold and the Dogs of the Moscow Subway
Snapshots with the hyper prefix of realism focused on emotionality and the common beleaguerment of the human experience. Susan Sontag ... «ArtSlant, Jun 14»
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Documentaries Opening in June 2014
... after a grueling, emotionally and economically devastating two year period of legal beleaguerment brought about by his hactivism in the interest of public and ... «Documentaries.About.com, Jun 14»
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Bergdahl still has a hard road home
The mission says that: "Preserving the life and well-being of U.S. military personnel placed in danger of isolation, beleaguerment, detention, ... «CNN, Jun 14»

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