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
When they did, they often found that a determined besieger had got there before them.
From Time Magazine Archive
For 73 days the city that had never yet fallen to a besieger had fought off attack after attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
But why he would not, no one knew, neither the starving City, nor the patient besieger outside.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
But at the same instant an agile besieger who, unnoticed, had crossed the Rubicon, darted from his concealment, and dashed by Gabriel into the room.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
