besieging

Other forms of besieging

plural

besiegings·

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 besieging

What does besieging mean?

besieging means "the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack".

How many syllables are in besieging?

besieging has 3 syllables: be-sie-ging. The stress falls on "sie". In IPA it is /bɪˈsidʒɪŋ/.

What is another word for besieging?

Close synonyms include siege, beleaguering, military blockade. 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 besieging a common word?

besieging 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.