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What does besiege mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
  3. to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
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Fans besiege his house daily, while he is regularly accosted by members of the public seeking anything from an autograph to a fist fight.
The names «Gog and Magog» refer to this prophecy of Ezekiel, describing how Satan will lead the nations to besiege the New Jerusalem.
Assad reacts violently by giving the order to besiege the city and to bombard it with heavy artillery.
This widespread belief prevents us from being on guard as ads besiege us.
A holiday in Peru turns into an endurance test, as a whole sequence of health problems besiege me throughout, and for several weeks thereafter.
So the order is to besiege civilian areas and use food and water as a weapon.

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