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Beleaguered
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- He believes a restored park will lift this beleaguered region out of poverty.
- Nothing the beleaguered boy does can shake his sister, not even removing himself to the yard.
- Heavy rains have beleaguered much of Mexico's south for weeks.
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Word Origin & History
beleaguer
1580s, from Du. belegeren "to besiege," from be- "around" + legeren "to camp," from leger "bed, camp, army, lair," from P.Gmc. *leg-raz-, from PIE *legh-to- "lie" (see lie (v.2)). A word from the Flemish Wars. Spelling influenced by league. Related: Beleaguered.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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