Beleaguered

ppl. a. [f. BELEAGUER v. + -ED¹.] Besieged, invested, beset.

1644.  Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 69. In defence of beleagured truth.

1647.  Sprigg, Angl. Rediv., IV. vii. (1854), 281. To know themselves a beleagured enemy.

1762.  Falconer, Shipwr., III. 165. Beleaguer’d Troy.

1852.  Thackeray, Esmond, III. x. (1876), 416. The poor beleaguered garrison.

1862.  Goulburn, Pers. Relig., III. viii. The key of a beleaguered position.