beleaguer

Before God can make her in truth His own, make her verify her name, He will have to beleaguer and reduce her.

They, however, continued to beleaguer the place, occasionally showing in great masses.

In his tragedy of Ezelino, after the tyrant's downfall, a captain is sent to beleaguer Treviso, and reduce Ezelino's garrison.

For Edward took his army to beleaguer Calais, and after blockading it for nearly a year forced it to surrender.