(~s, besieging, ~d)
1.
If you are ~d by people, many people want something from you and continually bother you.
She was ~d by the press and the public.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
2.
If soldiers ~ a place, they surround it and wait for the people in it to stop fighting or resisting.
The main part of the army moved to Sevastopol to ~ the town...
The Afghan air force was using helicopters to supply the ~d town.
VERB: V n, V-ed