Besieging is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BESIEGING in dictionary:

VERB:
• surround (a place) with armed forces in order to capture it or force its surrender
• surround and harass
• be inundated by large numbers of requests or complaints
NOUN:
• the act of surrounding
• the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
ADJECTIVE:
• That besieges; laying siege to.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to surround

Words related to BESIEGING

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Words that contain BESIEGING

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How to use BESIEGING in a sentence

• The besieging army numbered about five thousand French and eleven thousand Americans.
• The besieging land army was not much more fortunate.
• As he stood under the walls of Rouen, the besieging armies fled by night.
• Amongst other things he sent from Paris a body of three hundred men to the assistance of the peasants who were besieging the castle of Ermenonville.
• The king was then at Narbonne, on his way to his army, which was besieging Perpignan.
• This came from Massena, who was, as I knew, besieging Ciudad Rodrigo.
• Others Clearchus purposed to have built, and with the whole united squadron to so injure the allies of the Athenians as to draw off the besieging army from Byzantium.
• He considered that the King would manifestly take Rouen, which the insatiable man was now besieging.
• He chooses that of Achilles, and then goes to Rome, where he joins the besieging army of Bourbon.
• Frederic, aided by the gold of England, was early on the move, and had already opened the campaign by the invasion of Moravia, and by besieging Olmutz.
• Datis is moreover represented, destroying Naxos with his fleet, and Artaphernes besieging Eretria, and Xerxes gaining his famous victories.
• If the Prussian army, when besieging Olmutz, had observed this rule, the capture of a convoy would not have forced them to raise the siege and to retreat.
• These reports accused the officers in charge of the town of failing in the performance of their duties, and showing symptoms of abject fear in regard to the besieging Boer army.
• Meanwhile, however, the French were besieging the fortresses of the county of Evreux.
• The wretched fugitives from the expected scene of war crowded into this region, besieging the doors of the abbeys and monasteries to beg for shelter, or food, or protection.
• He himself, moreover, though besieging Petra with the whole army, accomplished nothing, although the enemy were few.
• Herr Chamberlain himself quotes the account of a witness who saw him, in May, 1849, distributing revolutionary pamphlets to the troops who were besieging Dresden.
• Huge white rocks, split off from the cliffs above, lie below in the midst of the eternally besieging waves.
• July was drawing near now, and they had almost reached the united armies besieging York, and it was expected that when Prince Rupert came into the field a battle would be fought.
• Fulvius began to draw together their forces for the purpose of besieging Capua.
• The Germans are in general but indifferent engineers, and little acquainted with the art of besieging.
• Disease and anxiety had worn him away while he was hopelessly besieging Quebec.
• Several runners were sent out, but failed to break through the besieging forces.
• While Fabius was besieging Tarentum, he received assistance in the accomplishment of that great object by a circumstance which in the mere mention, is unimportant.
• The Confederates, straining every nerve to save the place, were gathering a great force in the neighborhood to break up the besieging army.
• He was well aware that the famous Persian had his eye upon him, and that the besieging of the city was but a question of time.
• They were at once surrounded by a multitude of natives, all of whom were armed and who, for three days, watched their labours most attentively, fairly besieging them.
• In the ranks of the besieging force there was intense excitement and stir.

Similar words containing BESIEG without suffix ing

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