Usually means: Surrounding a place to force surrender.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. besiegement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. besiegement: Collins English Dictionary
  3. besiegement: Wordnik
  4. besiegement: Wiktionary
  5. Besiegement, besiegement: Dictionary.com
  6. Besiegement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. besiegement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Besiegement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. besiegement: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Besiegement: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. besiegement: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.

Similar:
besieging, beleaguerment, besetment, investment, embattlement, leaguer, bego, encompassment, seising, contravallation, more...

Opposite:
relief, liberation, freedom

Types:
seige, blockade, siege, more...

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Similar:
besieging, beleaguerment, besetment, investment, embattlement, leaguer, bego, encompassment, seising, contravallation, more...

Opposite:
relief, liberation, freedom

Types:
seige, blockade, siege, more...



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