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Meanings of besieging in inglés
The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
Usage of besieging in inglés
1
In May he took Upsala; by midsummer he was besieging Stockholm itself.
2
People were besieging the provision shops to lay in stores of food.
3
Stunned relatives gathered there, some weeping quietly, others besieging officials with questions.
4
And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna.
5
They had spent more than a year besieging San Michele and Podgora.
6
We find that the advance guards of winter are besieging the house.
7
French-American Attack on Savannah.-InSeptember, D'Estaing joined Lincoln in besieging that city.
8
The besieging army numbered about five thousand French and eleven thousand Americans.
9
She is besieging London, and she wishes the American to remain neutral.
10
Around the other city lay two armies besieging it, with flashing arms.
11
A carpet of bushy grass was besieging the edge of the road.
12
The blockade was carefully prepared, as if they were besieging a fortress.
13
Yet he knew that his power was besieging her on every side.
14
Truths which he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably.
15
They were bent on besieging thy palace, perhaps upon demanding thy abdication.
16
You didn't have anybody besieging you to marry before you were thirty.
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Besieging across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common