beleaguer
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
annoy persistently
The children teased the boy because of his stammer
Types & categories
- rag hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
surround so as to force to give up
The Turks besieged Vienna
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- besieger derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | teasing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | heckler |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | gadfly |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tease |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | rag |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | besieger |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | attack |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | seal off |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ebb |