besiege
verb (used with object)
to lay siege to.
Example Sentences
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In the back-and-forth of fantasies of conquest and submission between panicked Catholics and renascent Muslims, Islam plays an ambiguous role, as both the feared besieger and the admirable Other.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2015
For 73 days the city that had never yet fallen to a besieger had fought off attack after attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
When they did, they often found that a determined besieger had got there before them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The circumvallation was a line of parapet which the besieger made outside the investing position of his own force, to protect it when there was a chance of attack by a relieving army.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
How was he to be rescued from his fierce besieger?
From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid
