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Webster 1913 Edition


Besieging

Be-sie′ging

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Adj.
That besieges; laying siege to.
Be-sie′ging-ly
,
adv.

Webster 1828 Edition


Besieging

BESIE'GING

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ppr.
Laying siege; surrounding with armed forces.

Definition 2024


besieging

besieging

English

Verb

besieging

  1. present participle of besiege

Noun

besieging (plural besiegings)

  1. The act by which a place is besieged.
    • Frances Hodgson Burnett
      [] stories of warriors and abbots and bards, of feudal lords at ruthless war with each other, of besiegings and battles and captives and torments.