besiege

Other forms of besiege

past tense

besieged·

present participle

besieging·

third person

besieges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about besiege

What does besiege mean?

besiege means "surround so as to force to give up". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in besiege?

besiege has 2 syllables: be-siege. The stress falls on "siege". In IPA it is /bɪˈsidʒ/.

What is another word for besiege?

Close synonyms include beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is besiege a common word?

besiege is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with besiege?

1 word rhymes with besiege. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.