besieging

«besieging» in Mova's school dictionary: Surrounding a town, castle or fort with an army to make… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb, -ing form of besiege (besiege, besieges, besieged, besieging); adjective (besieging)

meaning for a pupil

1) Surrounding a town, castle or fort with an army to make it give up. tree →

2) Crowding round someone or something, or sending lots of requests. tree →

sense in the lessons

History: the besieging army camps outside the walls, cuts off food and water and waits. In everyday speech: «fans besieging the stars' hotel». Phrase: the besieging army/forces.

examples

• The besieging army dug trenches around the walls. tree →
• Reporters were besieging the hotel. tree →
• The besieging soldiers built catapults. tree →
• Children were besieging the ice-cream van. tree →
• The besieging forces finally gave up and went home. tree →

note

Spelling: besieging (drop the final «e» of besiege before -ing). «Besieging» is the attackers; «besieged» is the people inside.

In the corpora

• And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «besieging» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.