beleaguered

vaikeuksissa oleva besieged Besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.
1990, (w), The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 220:

4,500 British and Indian troops and twelve thousand camp-followers, including some three dozen British wives, children and nannies, found themselves beleaguered in what Kaye described as little better than ‘sheep-folds on the plain’.

a beleaguered stronghold

a beleaguered town

a beleaguered ego

a beleaguered identity

a beleaguered real estate market