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Beleaguering

noun

The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack. Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege.

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"Beleaguering" Quotes from Famous Books

... not heard wheels in the drive, so they were startled by Vessons' intrigue insertion of himself into a small opening of the door, his firm shutting of it as if in face of a beleaguering ...

— Gone to Earth • Mary Webb

... cut his way through the beleaguering lines and brought off his entire regiment. He reached Nashville on the day after it was entered by the army. It was impossible for the infantry men who escaped to make their way from the scene of disaster, except in small detachments. ...

— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke

... calculate upon anything, or guard against anything. It may be, after all, because of these very pitfalls that their virtue is better guarded than that of other women, if only for the reason that the beleaguering forces get mortally tired. But what struck me, and what I resented most, is that those pitfalls, barricades, and the whole array of defence are not so much erected for the repulse of the enemy as to give them the sensation of warfare. I spoke of this ...

— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... and caused much excitement. This order directed that a detachment of fifty prisoners, selected from officers of the highest rank, should be forwarded to Charleston, in order that they might be placed under the fire of the siege guns with which the beleaguering Union forces were attempting the reduction of that city. The order further directed that Generals Scammon, Wessels, Seymour, Schuyler and Heckman should be included in the number. The mandate was of course at once executed, and the departure of the devoted band was ...

— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens

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