BESIEGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does besieged mean? 

• BESIEGED (adjective)
  The adjective BESIEGED has 1 sense:

1. surrounded by hostile forces

  Familiarity information: BESIEGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BESIEGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surrounded by hostile forces

Context example:

the besieged town

Similar:

enclosed (closed in or surrounded or included within)

 Context examples 

It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Also, it seemed to him that the fort was besieged by wolves.

(White Fang, by Jack London)