beleaguered

Definition

Besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.

Etymology

From beleaguer + -ed.

Example Sentences

• "a beleaguered stronghold"
• "a beleaguered town"
• "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’."