beleaguering

Other forms of beleaguering

plural

beleaguerings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about beleaguering

What does beleaguering mean?

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

How many syllables are in beleaguering?

beleaguering has 4 syllables: be-lea-gue-ring. The stress falls on "lea". In IPA it is /bɪˈliɡɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for beleaguering?

Close synonyms include siege, besieging, military blockade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beleaguering a common word?

beleaguering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.