besiege

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːdʒ

Verb

besiege (third-person singular simple present besieges, present participle besieging, simple past and past participle besieged)

1. (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To beleaguer, lay siege to, beset.
3. to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.

Translations

to surround with armed forces

• Arabic: حاصر
• Catalan: assetjar (ca)
• Danish: belejre
• Dutch: belegeren (nl)
• Finnish: piirittää (fi), motittaa (fi)
• French: assiéger (fr)
• German: belagern (de)
• Ido: asiejar
• Italian: assediare (it)

• Jèrriais: assiégi
• Luxembourgish: belageren (lb)
• Maori: pāhau (mi), pakipaki (mi)
• Norwegian: beleire (no)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: omleire (nn)
• Quechua: intuy (qu)
• Romanian: împresura (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèan sèist air (gd)
• Spanish: asediar (es)

to lay siege to

• German: belagern (de)

• Maori: pāhau (mi), pakipaki (mi)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèan sèist air (gd)

to assail or ply

• German: belagern (de)

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• Bulgarian: обсаждам, обкръжавам

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German

Verb

besiege

1. First-person singular present of besiegen.
2. Imperative singular of besiegen.
3. First-person singular subjunctive I of besiegen.
4. Third-person singular subjunctive I of besiegen.