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besiegingverbpresent participle 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 beleaguering, blockading, investing, leaguering(archaic) barricading, blocking, cutting off, damming, encirclingassailing, assaulting, attacking, besettingconfining, insulating, isolating, quarantining laying siege to emancipating, freeing, liberating, releasing, rescuing to cause persistent suffering toa family besieged by worries about the faltering economy afflicting, agonizing, anguishing, bedeviling, besetting, cursing, excruciating, harrowing, persecuting, plaguing, racking, tormenting, torturing assailing, attackingbadgering, dogging, hounding, pursuing, ridingaggravating, agitating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, griping, hagriding, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, molesting, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, vexingdiscomforting, discomposing, disquieting, flustering, grieving, perturbing, straining, stressing, troubling, trying, upsetting, worryingcrushing, oppressing, overpowering, overwhelming, smiting, striking, tyrannizing, victimizinghurting, paining, panging, pricking, smarting, stabbing, stinging, wringingmartyring abetting, aiding, assisting, helpingdelivering, releasing, relieving, reprievingcomforting, consoling, contenting, quieting, solacing, soothing, succoring to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent mannerbereaved parents continued to besiege the president with pleas to end the war appealing (to), begging, beseeching, conjuring, entreating, impetrating, imploring, importuning, petitioning, pleading (to), praying, soliciting, supplicating bludging(chiefly Australian & New Zealand), cadging, mooching, spongingasking, desiring, invoking, requesting, suingclaiming, coercing, commanding, compelling, demanding, forcing, insisting, requiring calling on(or calling upon) hinting, implying, intimating, suggestingappeasing, conciliating, gratifying, mollifying, obliging, pacifying, placating, pleasing, satisfyingcomforting, consoling, contenting, quieting |