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Definition of Besieging
1. Noun. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
Generic synonyms: Blockade, Encirclement
Specialized synonyms: Alamo, Atlanta, Battle Of Atlanta, Bataan, Corregidor, Dien Bien Phu, Lucknow, Orleans, Siege Of Orleans, Petersburg, Petersburg Campaign, Pleven, Plevna, Siege Of Syracuse, Syracuse, Siege Of Syracuse, Syracuse, Siege Of Vicksburg, Vicksburg, Siege Of Yorktown, Yorktown
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Definition of Besieging
1. a. That besieges; laying siege to.
Definition of Besieging
1. Verb. (present participle of besiege) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Besieging
1. besiege [v] - See also: besiege
Lexicographical Neighbors of Besieging
Literary usage of Besieging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... »hips vero manned, to the number of eighty sail (for forty wero besieging ...
It happened likewise tho ч uno d:iy, that those too who «ere besieging ..."
2. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1883)
"The besieging tower or walking tower (turri* ambulatoria) was often ... For the
manner of besieging a city in the time of ..."
3. A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1865)
"... an attack on the coasts of Italy by the Turk—This hope quickly fades—Second,
a sortie in force which should destroy the besieging army—Untrustworthiness ..."
4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1830)
"... from Silistria with part of the besieging Army to support General Roth, ...
to open Negotiations—Silistria surrenders, and the besieging Army joins ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1830)
"Silistria with part of the besieging Army to support General Roth, ... offer to
open Negotiations—Silistria surrenders, and the besieging Army joins Count ..."
6. A History of Rome: Amply Illustrated with Maps, Plans, and Engravings by Robert Fowler Leighton (1885)
"The besieging tower or walking tower (turris ambulatoria) was often of immense
... Hist, ili., 23, 29), • For the manner of besieging a city in the time of ..."
7. An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions by Fynes Moryson (1908)
"Of the besieging of the Spaniards at Kinsale, with the delivery of the Towne to
... The the army rose, & marching towards Kinsale, en- The besieging camped ..."
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