besieging

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of besiege

noun

  1. The act by which a place is besieged.
    […] stories of warriors and abbots and bards, of feudal lords at ruthless war with each other, of besiegings and battles and captives and torments. 1907, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Shuttle

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