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{"id": "beleaguer", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "beleaguer", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["late 16th century: from Dutch belegeren \u2018camp round\u2019, from be- \u2018(all) about\u2019 + leger \u2018a camp\u2019"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/beleaguer_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "b\u026a\u02c8li\u02d0\u0261\u0259"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["cause problems or difficulties for"], "examples": [{"text": "he attempts to answer several questions that beleaguer the industry"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0085010.011", "shortDefinitions": ["cause problems or difficulties for"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "hard-pressed"}, {"language": "en", "text": "troubled"}, {"language": "en", "text": "in difficulties"}, {"language": "en", "text": "under pressure"}, {"language": "en", "text": "under stress"}, {"language": "en", "text": "with one's back to the wall"}, {"language": "en", "text": "in a tight corner"}, {"language": "en", "text": "in a tight spot"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "beleaguered", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0001315.002"}]}, {"definitions": ["lay siege to (a place); besiege"], "examples": [{"text": "our leaders decided to beleaguer the city"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0085010.005", "registers": [{"id": "archaic", "text": "Archaic"}], "shortDefinitions": ["lay siege to"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "besieged"}, {"language": "en", "text": "under siege"}, {"language": "en", "text": "blockaded"}, {"language": "en", "text": "surrounded"}, {"language": "en", "text": "encircled"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hemmed in"}, {"language": "en", "text": "under attack"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "beleaguered", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0001315.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "beleaguer"}], "type": "headword", "word": "beleaguer"}], "word": "beleaguer"}
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