assediare — meaning in English

English meaning

• beset verb To trouble or threaten from many directions at once, especially with difficulties or dangers.
• besiege verb To surround a place with soldiers in order to force the people inside to give up.
• surround verb To be positioned on all sides of something; to encircle.

Senses

assediare is used for these senses in English:

• beset (transitive, sometimes, figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
• lay siege (intransitive) Chiefly followed by against or to: to engage in a siege; to besiege.
• surround (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.

beset — full definition

1. verb To trouble or threaten from many directions at once, especially with difficulties or dangers.
2. verb To surround or hem something in on all sides.

besiege — full definition

1. verb To surround a place with soldiers in order to force the people inside to give up.
2. verb To trouble or surround someone persistently.
3. verb To keep asking someone for something, again and again.

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