The Only Use of
beleaguered
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Ethan Frome
- Twenty years earlier the means of resistance must have been far fewer, and the enemy in command of almost all the lines of access between the beleaguered villages; and, considering these things, I felt the sinister force of Harmon's phrase: "Most of the smart ones get away."†
Chpt Open
Definition:
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(beleaguered) troubled -- especially when surrounded by enemy forces