assiege
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old French asegier (“besiege”) (Modern French assiéger); equivalent to a- + siege.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
assiege (plural assieges)
Verb[edit]
assiege (third-person singular simple present assieges, present participle assieging, simple past and past participle assieged)
- (transitive) To besiege.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- On th'other side, th'assieged Castles ward,
Their stedfast stonds did mightily maintaine […]
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