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The Turks besieged Viennabesieged = surrounded with armed forces, cut-off from supplies, and attacked
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The photographers besieged the movie star.besieged = surrounded and annoyed
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Helicopters dropped food and medicine into the besieged city.besieged = surrounded
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Grant was besieged with requests for interviews, lectures, books. (source)besieged = overwhelmed
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She did not have a chance to respond, because we were at her house, and she was more interested in besieging her father with questions. (source)besieging = making an overwhelming number of requests
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He managed to stay out of the limelight until the morning of Halliday's death, when his home was besieged by the media. (source)besieged = surrounded
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For three hours, Watanabe besieged Bush, kicking him and hacking off his hair with his sword. (source)besieged = overwhelmed
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The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between besiegers and besieged.† (source)
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Also I ought to warn Richard, at his office: As soon as the word got out, the corpse flies would besiege him.† (source)besiege = surround and cut-off supplies; or overwhelm
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I will reach it, but Teiresias said that when I do I will find men besieging my home.† (source)besieging = surrounding and cutting-off supplies; or overwhelming
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Appalachee troops also raided Cornwallis's supply lines so often that after less than a month it became quite clear that Cornwallis was the besieged, not the besieger.† (source)
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Sir, she said, this knight is going to the siege that besiegeth my sister in the Castle Dangerous.† (source)besiegeth = surrounds and cuts-off supplies; or overwhelmsstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She besiegeth" in older English, today we say "She besieges."
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Him great and mighty Ráma, best Of royal saints, in turn addressed: "What, Bharat, have I done, that thou Besiegest me,(394) a suppliant now?† (source)Besiegest = surround and cut-off supplies; or overwhelmstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou besiege" in older English, today we say "You besiege."
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The people in charge of the hospital thought it might be difficult for them to stay at the hospital because they would be besieged by journalists, and they wanted to protect us at this critical stage in my recovery. (source)besieged = surrounded and annoyed by requests
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All round this they had cleared a wide space, and then the thing was completed by a paling six feet high, without door or opening, too strong to pull down without time and labour and too open to shelter the besiegers.† (source)
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There is no other way to besiege Riverrun, yet still, that will be their undoing.† (source)besiege = surround and cut-off supplies; or overwhelm
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