beleaguer

Verb
  1. Annoy persistently (synset 201807344)
    "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
    is a type of: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment - treat cruelly
    same as: badger, bug, pester, tease
  2. Surround so as to force to give up (synset 201129837)
    "The Turks besieged Vienna"
    is a type of: assail, attack - launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
    subtypes:
    • blockade, seal off - impose a blockade on
    • ebb - hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
    same as: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround

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