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Definition
to surround with armed forces, and cut-off supplies or attack
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to make an overwhelming number of requests, complaints, or comments — typically in an annoying manner and sometimes while surrounding
or:
to make an overwhelming number of requests, complaints, or comments — typically in an annoying manner and sometimes while surrounding
- Meanwhile the besiegers, when they heard much noise among the cattle as they sat in council, sprang to their horses, and made with all speed towards them; when they reached them they set battle in array by the banks of the river, and the hosts aimed their bronze-shod spears at one another.Book 18 (85% in)
There are no more uses of "besiege" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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