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The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.

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        In May he took Upsala; by midsummer he was besieging Stockholm itself.
        Hero Tales of the Far North
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        People were besieging the provision shops to lay in stores of food.
        If Winter Comes
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        Stunned relatives gathered there, some weeping quietly, others besieging officials with questions.
        Reuters
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        And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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        They had spent more than a year besieging San Michele and Podgora.
        The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
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        We find that the advance guards of winter are besieging the house.
        The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
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        French-American Attack on Savannah.-InSeptember, D'Estaing joined Lincoln in besieging that city.
        The Colored Regulars in the United States Army
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        The besieging army numbered about five thousand French and eleven thousand Americans.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders
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        She is besieging London, and she wishes the American to remain neutral.
        In a Steamer Chair, and Other Stories
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        Around the other city lay two armies besieging it, with flashing arms.
        The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) / Stories from the Classic...
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        A carpet of bushy grass was besieging the edge of the road.
        The Reality Dysfunction
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        The blockade was carefully prepared, as if they were besieging a fortress.
        Mademoiselle Fifi
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        Yet he knew that his power was besieging her on every side.
        Trailin'!
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        Truths which he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably.
        Les Misérables
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        They were bent on besieging thy palace, perhaps upon demanding thy abdication.
        Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book II.
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        You didn't have anybody besieging you to marry before you were thirty.
        The Twenty-Fourth of June: Midsummer's Day
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