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) Luxembourgish: belageren (lb) Norwegian: beleire (no) Norwegian Nynorsk: omleire (nn) Romanian: împresura (ro) Spanish: asediar (es)

to lay siege to

German: belagern (de)

to assail or ply

German: belagern (de)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

Bulgarian: обсаждам, обкръжавам Scottish Gaelic: dèan sèist air (gd)

---

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.