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# besieging

«besieging» in Mova's school dictionary: **Surrounding a town, castle or fort with an army to make…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, -ing form of besiege (besiege, besieges, besieged, besieging); adjective (besieging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Surrounding a town, castle or fort with an army to make it give up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besieging/#m1)

2) Crowding round someone or something, or sending lots of requests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besieging/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

History: the besieging army camps outside the walls, cuts off food and water and waits. In everyday speech: «fans besieging the stars' hotel». Phrase: the besieging army/forces.

### examples

- The besieging army dug trenches around the walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besieging/#x1)
- Reporters were besieging the hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besieging/#x2)
- The besieging soldiers built catapults. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besieging/#x3)
- Children were besieging the ice-cream van. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besieging/#x4)
- The besieging forces finally gave up and went home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besieging/#x5)

### note

Spelling: besieging (drop the final «e» of besiege before -ing). «Besieging» is the attackers; «besieged» is the people inside.

### In the corpora

- [And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.746/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «besieging» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/besieging/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.