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 engagement was ended—formally—but in such a manner that Magnet was left a rather pathetic and invincibly assiduous besieger.
From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Moreover the number of defenders was insufficient to garrison the extensive precincts of Saguntum, while the besieger had at his disposal an immense armed multitude which could hurl itself against several places at once.
From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
