besieging

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It participated in besieging the city by cutting the northern supply routes and by digging in until 1944.

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The act by which a place is besieged.

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noun

The act by which a place is besieged.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for besieging.

noun

The act by which a place is besieged.

Example sentences

It participated in besieging the city by cutting the northern supply routes and by digging in until 1944.

Now the Smurfs and the Ponies are besieging the dollhouse along with the Warhammer elves your brother started painting.

As well as going door-to-door and forcing entry without a warrant, besieging Spanish language immersion schools, and other dragnet horrors.

My pen does not commend that protector who is proud of besieging his own city.

Now a terrorist could take a army of tanks while besieging a city.

Would it not have been the people besieging the city who were responsible?

Most castles simply made a local lord unfireable by his king since besieging a castle was way too expensive for a regular dispute.

Just to be clear the famine is deliberately being caused by occupying g*nocidal Janjaweed army (the RSF), they are besieging towns across the region destroy to prevent food production, blocking supplies and trade.

When the Iraqis and the US were besieging and pounding Mosul, was there a lot of discussion about the suffering of the innocents?

For me it's obvious that if the IDF keep besieging Gaza, Hamas will eventually have to come out of their holes, and die.

It brings a strategic element of a different nature to besieging a city, I don't mind it.

For example, Phillip was actually an innovator in siege equipment and was the first person in Greece to really take towns by besieging them.

Quote examples

"There is a giant octopus besieging NYC right now".

I didn't get any sense that the author was expecting others to divine the solution to his problems; I think he was just irritated because they were besieging him with "concern" without actually helping any.

(About the closest you can point to is the Turks besieging Vienna.) If you've ever wondered why europe dominated the new world & africa and not vice versa, I highly recommend Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel."

I think it's more sad to expect others to divine the solution to your problems when they have no point of reference I didn't get any sense that the author was expecting others to divine the solution to his problems; I think he was just irritated because they were besieging him with "concern" without actually helping any.