BESIEGE


Meaning of BESIEGE in English

v. 25B6; verb

the English army besieged Leith : LAY SIEGE TO, beleaguer, blockade, surround; archaic invest.

fans besieged his hotel : SURROUND, mob, crowd round, swarm round, throng round, ring round, encircle.

guilt besieged him : OPPRESS, torment, torture, rack, plague, afflict, haunt, harrow, beset, beleaguer, trouble, bedevil, prey on.

he was besieged with requests : OVERWHELM, inundate, deluge, flood, swamp, snow under; bombard.

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