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beleaguered

adjective as in attacked

adjective as in surrounded

Strongest match

Weak match

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No one beats up on New Jersey like its own beleaguered residents, who arguably get less for their money than anyone else in the country.

Late in 2008 he wrote a letter expressing love for both the incoming Barack Obama but also “my beleaguered superpower.”

The beleaguered bride, in her dress, perspired through her makeup on a warm afternoon.

The deal has lifted beleaguered drug stocks by pointing a way for companies to remove the threat of tariffs and deal with U.S. pricing pressures.

The looming economic blow comes as Haiti’s beleaguered government struggles to contain gangs that have taken over nearly the entire capital, Port-au-Prince.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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