bedrängen — meaning in English

English meaning

• accost verb To walk up to someone and speak to them in a forceful or unwelcome way.
• beleaguer verb To surround a place with an army in order to attack it.
• besiege verb To surround a place with soldiers in order to force the people inside to give up.
• exhort verb To strongly encourage someone to do something.
• heckle verb To interrupt a speaker or performer with mocking comments or aggressive questions.
• importune verb To annoy or trouble someone.
• persecute verb To treat someone cruelly or unfairly over a long period, often because of their race, religion, or beliefs.
• solicit verb To ask for or try to obtain something, often persistently or formally.

Senses

bedrängen is used for these senses in English:

• beleaguer To vex, harass, or beset.
• besiege (transitive, figuratively) To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
• besiege to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
• exhort To urge; to advise earnestly.
• heckle (transitive) To insult, tease, make fun of or badger, especially during a comedy performance.
• importune (transitive) To harass with persistent requests.
• persecute To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.
• solicit (transitive) To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.

accost — full definition

1. verb To walk up to someone and speak to them in a forceful or unwelcome way.
2. verb To lie right next to something else, touching its edge.
3. verb To sail close along the coastline or edge of something.
4. verb To come close to someone or something.

beleaguer — full definition

1. verb To surround a place with an army in order to attack it.
2. verb To trouble or torment someone constantly.

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