besiege

1. 1.

   surround so as to force to give up

   “The Turks besieged Vienna”

   Synonymsbeleaguersurroundhem incircumvent

   Broaderattack

   Narrowerblockadeebb
2. 2.

   cause to feel distressed or worried

   “She was besieged by so many problems that she got discouraged”

   Broaderdistress
3. 3.

   harass, as with questions or requests

   “The press photographers besieged the movie star”

   Broaderimportune

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.