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 beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
• 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 beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
2. verb To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
3. verb To assail or ply, as with requests or demands.

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