besiege
verb (used with object)
to lay siege to.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I would like you to know that I am besieging the Franks, who intend to destroy us, in the very city, Antioch, which they have just captured.
From The Deeds of God Through the Franks by Robert Levine