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besiegedverbpast tense of besiege to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communicationarmies besieged the city for six months before it finally surrendered beleaguered, blockaded, invested, leaguered(archaic) barricaded, blocked, cut off, dammed, encircledassailed, assaulted, attacked, besetconfined, insulated, isolated, quarantined laid siege to emancipated, freed, liberated, released, rescued to cause persistent suffering toa family besieged by worries about the faltering economy afflicted, agonized, anguished, bedeviled, beset, cursed, excruciated, harrowed, persecuted, plagued, racked, tormented, tortured assailed, attackedbadgered, dogged, hounded, pursued, rode(or chiefly dialectal rid)aggravated, agitated, annoyed, bothered, bugged, chafed, distressed, disturbed, exasperated, galled, got, grated, griped, hagrode, harassed, harried, irked, irritated, molested, nettled, peeved, pestered, piqued, put out, rasped, riled, vexed(also vext)discomforted, discomposed, disquieted, flustered, grieved, perturbed, strained, stressed, tried, troubled, upset, worriedcrushed, oppressed, overpowered, overwhelmed, smote, struck, tyrannized, victimizedhurt, pained, panged, pricked, smarted, stabbed, stung, wrungmartyred abetted, aided, assisted, helpeddelivered, released, relieved, reprievedcomforted, consoled, contented, quieted, solaced, soothed, succored to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent mannerbereaved parents continued to besiege the president with pleas to end the war appealed (to), begged, beseeched(or besought), conjured, entreated, impetrated, implored, importuned, petitioned, pleaded (to)(or pled (to) also plead (to)), prayed, solicited, supplicated bludged(chiefly Australian & New Zealand), cadged, mooched, spongedasked, desired, invoked, requested, suedclaimed, coerced, commanded, compelled, demanded, forced, insisted, required called on(or called upon) hinted, implied, intimated, suggestedappeased, conciliated, gratified, mollified, obliged, pacified, placated, pleased, satisfiedcomforted, consoled, contented, quieted |