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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of besiege.

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Examples

  • It helps us sort and prioritize the flood of information that besieges us every hour.

    Pet Talk: High court's decision is a depiction of animal cruelty 2010

  • At the other end of the attic nine-year-old Hanelore Goldschmidt besieges Miriam with questions: Will there be school?

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • A nasty baron besieges her family's castle, but before anything happens her grandparents show up with an even bigger army.

    Last But Not Least: The Courageous Princess 2008

  • It's not a dog that gets bitten by a diabolical bat and besieges a mother and son, or spooky ghosts that possess a writer in a haunted old hotel, or an arsonist who makes bonfires with psychic powers, or a creepy ten-year-old with clairvoyance who takes revenge on her schoolmates ..

    Beard 2010

  • A nasty baron besieges her family's castle, but before anything happens her grandparents show up with an even bigger army.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Unsurprisingly, partisan Democrats such as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) have embarked on what can only be described as a smear campaign, seeking to manipulate the American people into believing some fictitious scenario exists where corporate America gets a free pass for wrongdoing while the Committee besieges the defenseless Obama White House with, as they put it, "subpoenas and an eighty person staff to launch tax payer funded witch hunts against the President."

    Rep. Darrell Issa: What's Past Is Prologue Rep. Darrell Issa 2010

  • Unsurprisingly, partisan Democrats such as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) have embarked on what can only be described as a smear campaign, seeking to manipulate the American people into believing some fictitious scenario exists where corporate America gets a free pass for wrongdoing while the Committee besieges the defenseless Obama White House with, as they put it, "subpoenas and an eighty person staff to launch tax payer funded witch hunts against the President."

    Rep. Darrell Issa: What's Past Is Prologue 2010

  • At the other end of the attic nine-year-old Hanelore Goldschmidt besieges Miriam with questions: Will there be school?

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • Mr. Farkas, 49 years old, has returned to his old stomping ground as another crisis besieges commercial-property owners.

    Farkas Looks to Write a New Chapter Lingling Wei 2010

  • Forget the blizzard that besieges the cozy guesthouse in Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap": In the production of the iconic play running at 1st Stage, in Northern Virginia, the icy glares of Mrs. Boyle are the atmospherics to reckon with.

    1st Stage's 'Mousetrap' is a whodunit worth catching Celia Wren 2010

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