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Definition of Besiege

Besiege
Besiege Be*siege", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besieged; p. pr. & vb. n. Besieging.] [OE. bisegen; pref. be- + segen to siege. See Siege.] To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. --Shak. Syn: To environ; hem in; invest; encompass.

Meaning of Besiege from wikipedia

- the fortified position holds. The attacking force can cir****vallate the besieged place, which is to build a line of earth-works, consisting of a rampart...
- Look up besieged in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Besieged may refer to: the state of being under siege Besieged (film), a 1998 film by Bernardo Bertolucci...
- Besieged (Italian title: L'****edio) is a 1998 film by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Thandie Newton and David Thewlis. The film is based on the short story...
- Besiege is a vehicle-building sandbox video game based around medieval siege engines, developed and published by Spiderling Studios. The game was released...
- Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by Serbian forces of the Yugoslav People's Army, the city was then besieged by the Army of Republika Srpska....
- pɒliɔːrˈsiːtiːz/; Gr****: Δημήτριος Πολιορκητής, Dēmḗtrios Poliorkētḗs, lit. 'the Besieger of Cities'; 337 – 283 BC) was a Macedonian Gr**** nobleman and military...
- Fortress Besieged (simplified Chinese: 围城; traditional Chinese: 圍城; pinyin: Wéichéng) is a Chinese satirical novel written by Qian Zhongshu (Ch'ien Chung-shu)...
- Babylonian astrology was the first known organized system of astrology, arising in the second millennium BC. In Babylon as well as in ****yria as a direct...
- Besieged City (Chinese: 圍城) is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong. Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The...
- fortifications built by the attackers around the besieged fortification facing towards an enemy fort to protect the besiegers from sorties by its defenders and to...