0 past simple and past participle of besiege --
1 to surround a place, especially with an army, to prevent people or supplies getting in or out: --
After showing the controversial documentary, the channel was besieged with phone calls from angry viewers.
When the pop star tried to leave her hotel, she was besieged by waiting journalists and fans.
The town had been besieged for two months but still resisted the aggressors.
Howrah bridge was blocked and the station besieged by continuous crowd.
There are few practices that can rival the genetic engineering of animals as both a symbol of nature besieged and as a catalyst for the mobilization of animal rights protest.
Perhaps it is because of its implication in the besieged, but still hegemonic construction of gender that the fantasies surrounding concealment become so extreme, and so inclusive.
They are the last of the besieged.
The anniversary sermon extolled her virtues, poverty and constant battle against the devil and moved churchgoers to tears, many of whom besieged the nuns for her relics.
Consider a society besieged by rising crime rates.
When besieged, they put military survival ahead of civilian protection.
And for learners, who sometimes must feel besieged by their mistakes and failings, this is no small thing.
