BELEAGUERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beleaguering mean? 

• BELEAGUERING (noun)
  The noun BELEAGUERING has 1 sense:

1. the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack

  Familiarity information: BELEAGUERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELEAGUERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

beleaguering; besieging; military blockade; siege

Hypernyms ("beleaguering" is a kind of...):

blockade; encirclement (a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

Alamo (a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico)

Atlanta; battle of Atlanta (a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864)

Bataan; Corregidor (the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945)

Dien Bien Phu (the French military base fell after a siege by Vietnam troops that lasted 56 days; ended the involvement of France in Indochina in 1954)

Lucknow (the British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857))

Orleans; siege of Orleans (a long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429)

Petersburg; Petersburg Campaign (the final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee)

Pleven; Plevna (the town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days)

siege of Syracuse; Syracuse (the Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse)

siege of Syracuse; Syracuse (the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes))

siege of Vicksburg; Vicksburg (a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered)

siege of Yorktown; Yorktown (in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution)