besieged

[US]/bi'sidʒd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. surrounded by enemy forces; troubled or overwhelmed by difficulties (past participle)

Phrases & Collocations

besieged city

besieged fortress

Example Sentences

The superstar was besieged by reporters.

the television station was besieged with calls.

succor a besieged city

She was besieged by problems.

doubts that besieged him

The enemy were besieged by us.

she spent the whole day besieged by newsmen.

they struggled to supply the besieged island with aircraft.

Troy was besieged by the Greeks for ten years.

Reporters besieged the winner for interviews.

Food supplies were running low in the besieged town.

The professor was besieged with questions from his students.

Hundreds of admirers besieged the famous writer.

Citizens were forced to flee the besieged city.

The community besieged the newspaper with letters about its recent editorial.

Real-world Examples

Good evening, my besieged Ruburt, my besieged Joseph.

Source: The Early Sessions

Troy was besieged by the Greeks for ten years.

Source: Liu Yi's breakthrough of 5000 English vocabulary words.

We are besieged by do-it-yourselfers wanting to spruce up their homes.

Source: Fifty Shades of Grey (Audiobook Excerpt)

True, the Yankees under Grant had been besieging Vicksburg since the middle of May.

Source: Gone with the Wind

The teacher was besieged with the questions and requests from pupils.

Source: Liu Yi's breakthrough of 5000 English vocabulary words.

He pleaded with it to secure assistance with people of the besieged rebel-held neighborhoods.

Source: BBC Listening December 2016 Collection

Most of those places are hard to reach because they are besieged by regime forces and their allies.

Source: NPR News March 2016 Collection

Scores of civilians are largely cut off in besieged cities include Homs.

Source: NPR News February 2014 Compilation

They locked themselves up in a castle and the armies of Margaret besieged them.

Source: Realm of Legends

More critically ill Syrian patients have been evacuated from a besieged rebel-held area near Damascus.

Source: BBC Listening Collection December 2017

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