besiegen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- best adj Of the highest quality, or most suitable; superlative of "good."
- confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
- defeat verb To beat someone in a fight, contest, or competition.
- dispatch verb To send something or someone off promptly for a specific purpose.
- lick verb To pass the tongue over something.
- thrash verb To beat someone severely, or to defeat an opponent decisively.
- vanquish verb To defeat someone or something completely, especially in a fight or contest.
Senses
besiegen is used for these senses in English:
- best (transitive) To beat in a contest.
- confound To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
- defeat (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
- dispatch (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- lick (colloquial, dated) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
- thrash To defeat utterly.
- vanquish (transitive) To defeat (someone); to overcome.
best — full definition
- adj Of the highest quality, or most suitable; superlative of "good."
- noun The greatest possible effort someone can make.
- verb To defeat or outdo someone.
confound — full definition
- verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
- verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
- verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
- noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").