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BESIEGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does besieger mean? 

BESIEGER (noun)
  The noun BESIEGER has 2 senses:

1. an enemy who lays siege to your positionplay

2. an energetic petitionerplay

  Familiarity information: BESIEGER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BESIEGER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An enemy who lays siege to your position

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("besieger" is a kind of...):

enemy; foe; foeman; opposition (an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force))

Derivation:

besiege (surround so as to force to give up)


Sense 2

Meaning:

An energetic petitioner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("besieger" is a kind of...):

petitioner; requester; suppliant; supplicant (one praying humbly for something)


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