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    be·siege
    [bəˈsēj]
    verb
    besiege (verb) · besieges (third person present) · besieged (past tense) · besieged (past participle) · besieging (present participle)
    1. surround (a place) with armed forces in order to capture it or force its surrender; lay siege to:
      "the guerrillas continued to besiege other major cities to the north"
    2. crowd around oppressively; surround and harass:
      "she spent the whole day besieged by newsmen"
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      surround
      mob
      encircle
      hem in
      shut in
      oppress
      torment
      torture
      rack
      plague
      afflict
      harrow
      beset
      beleaguer
      trouble
      bedevil
      haunt
      crowd around
      swarm around
      throng around
      ring around
      set upon
      fall upon
      cause suffering to
      prey on
      weigh heavily on
      lie heavy on
      gnaw at
      nag at
    Origin
    Middle English: alteration (by change of prefix) of assiege, from Old French asegier.
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    What does it mean to besiege a teacher?
    To besiege means to attack with an army, or to pester with many requests. When all your teachers ask you to hand in assignments on the same day, you can end up feeling besieged. The source of the word besiege in its military sense is the Latin word for "seat."

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    Definition of besiege verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary besiege something to surround a building, city, etc. with soldiers until the people inside are forced to let you in synonym lay siege to Paris was besieged for four months and forced to surrender.

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    The army had besieged the castle. … besieging the royal ministers with petitions … T. B. Costain Customers have besieged the company with questions. Recent Examples on the Web Police have been besieged and outnumbered to combat the armed gangs.

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    What happens if a person besieges a place?
    If you are besieged by people, many people want something from you and continually bother you. If soldiers besiege a place, they surround it and wait for the people in it to stop fighting or resisting . The main part of the army moved to Sevastopol to besiege the town. [VERB noun] The air force was using helicopters to supply the besieged town.

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