осажда́ть — meaning in English
osazhdat
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English meaning
- beleaguer verb To surround a place with an army in order to attack it.
- 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.
- sediment noun Solid particles, such as sand or silt, that settle at the bottom of a liquid or body of water.
Senses
осажда́ть is used for these senses in English:
- beleaguer To besiege; to surround with troops.
- beleaguer To vex, harass, or beset.
- beset (transitive, sometimes, figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
- besiege (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
- besiege (transitive, figuratively) To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
- sediment (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
beleaguer — full definition
- verb To surround a place with an army in order to attack it.
- verb To trouble or torment someone constantly.
beset — full definition
- verb To trouble or threaten from many directions at once, especially with difficulties or dangers.
- verb To surround or hem something in on all sides.
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