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:
The town had been besieged for two months but still resisted the aggressors.
When the pop star tried to leave her hotel, she was besieged by waiting journalists and fans.
After showing the controversial documentary, the channel was besieged with phone calls from angry viewers.
In concert, they besieged the municipal offices to demand reimbursement in cash and threatened to withdraw their labour if this was not conceded.
Agricultural colleges and experiment stations, however, were increasingly besieged with letters of inquiry from the public30 and it became impossible to ignore the organic movement.
It begins with a defense of the very enterprise of economic methodology, which is besieged on two different fronts.
Everybody asked to go to the city, so that the centre of the dominant bureaucracy and aristocracy could be besieged.
Furthermore, in competitive races, candidates may be besieged by larger numbers of interested and engaged activists.
As the noon prayer concluded, he was besieged by a swarm of "the poor, beggars, and women" who were hoping for alms.
Bureaucrats find themselves besieged with requests they no longer have either the official authority or the personal financial means to fulfil.
And for learners, who sometimes must feel besieged by their mistakes and failings, this is no small thing.
