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What does beleaguer mean?

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Verb
  1. To besiege; to surround with troops.
  2. To vex, harass, or beset.
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The son of Charles Martel, the noble Charlemagne, who is venerated as a saint in Germany, sent his soldiers to Lourdes in order to beleaguer the castle and to starve its occupants without destroying the city.
And yet I cannot think that any Scottish or French rovers could land in such force as to beleaguer the fortalice.
In his tragedy of Ezelino, after the tyrant's downfall, a captain is sent to beleaguer Treviso, and reduce Ezelino's garrison.
But many stresses that beleaguer us do not fall into these categories.
The San Francisco and Oakland airports face each other across San Francisco Bay, but Oakland is on the sunny side, escaping the delays that beleaguer its often fog-bound rival.
Somehow that seemed to make her matter less, and Dodo had not at present made any determined effort to beleaguer her.

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