verb [VN]
1 to surround a building, city, etc. with soldiers until the people inside are forced to let you in:
Paris was besieged for four months and forced to surrender. * (figurative) Fans besieged the box office to try and get tickets for the concert.
2 [usuallypassive] (especially of sth unpleasant or annoying) to surround sb/sth in large numbers:
The actress was besieged by reporters at the airport.
3 ~ sb (with sth) to send so many letters, ask so many questions, etc. that it is difficult for sb to deal with them all:
The radio station was besieged with calls from angry listeners.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for besiege is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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