besieger
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9.3
- noun
- /bɪˈsiːdʒər/
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asediador
- In Thebes, a tame tigress's death initiates the first struggle between the besiegers and the Thebans: "In the city... was a tigress whose equal was not known beneath the heavens."
- city and its besiegers
Examples
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For now, that kept him on the throne and gave the city the ability to stay united against the besiegers.
Blog text (32) -
In history, the tactics of besiegers often included using siege engines to breach the walls of fortified cities.
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Some urged that we sally out against the besiegers, attack them, and drive them away.
Fiction book (1997) -
Again, the English besiegers cheered.
Fiction book (2001) -
Honestly, I have no problem with a besieged people firing rockets at their besiegers.
Blog text (11) -
But the Normans got into the city simply by applying a trick that later worked for the besiegers of Jerusalem in 1099 during the First Crusade.
Academic text (2010) -
He did this at the extreme range of arrows and was so sure of his advantage that, to amuse himself, he taunted the besiegers by occasionally lying down and pretending to be dead.
Academic text (2007) -
The soldiers faced severe challenges as they prepared for the attacks from the besiegers surrounding the city.
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Throughout the long conflict, the besiegers cut off food and water supplies to weaken the defenders.
Synonyms
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9.9
A soldier who surrounds a place to capture it
How Aggressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Besieger comes from besiege, which once meant to 'sit around' a place — be- with the idea 'around' and siege from an old word for 'seat' or 'sit'. So a besieger is literally someone who 'sits around' a town to block its supplies and capture it, which is why the word means a person who surrounds and attacks a place.