Synonyms of besieging

besieging

verb

present participle of besiege

1

as in blockading

to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication

armies besieged the city for six months before it finally surrendered

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blockading
• attacking
• encircling
• assaulting
• beleaguering
• laying siege to
• leaguering
• barricading
• blocking
• investing
• assailing
• besetting
• isolating
• cutting off
• confining
• damming
• insulating
• quarantining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• releasing
• freeing
• rescuing
• liberating
• emancipating

2

as in plaguing

to cause persistent suffering to

a family besieged by worries about the faltering economy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plaguing
• afflicting
• persecuting
• torturing
• attacking
• tormenting
• cursing
• besetting
• bothering
• bedeviling
• racking
• excruciating
• harrowing
• anguishing
• agonizing
• assailing
• troubling
• stinging
• pursuing
• harassing
• striking
• harrying
• oppressing
• hounding
• badgering
• pestering
• disturbing
• aggravating
• overwhelming
• trying
• distressing
• irritating
• annoying
• riding
• agitating
• dogging
• exasperating
• nettling
• hurting
• upsetting
• worrying
• perturbing
• bugging
• stressing
• vexing
• tyrannizing
• griping
• riling
• molesting
• stabbing
• irking
• grieving
• victimizing
• crushing
• smiting
• overpowering
• straining
• disquieting
• chafing
• galling
• discomforting
• grating
• piquing
• smarting
• flustering
• pricking
• rasping
• putting out
• getting
• paining
• wringing
• peeving
• discomposing
• hagriding
• martyring
• panging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• assisting
• aiding
• helping
• abetting
• relieving
• delivering
• releasing
• contenting
• consoling
• comforting
• quieting
• soothing
• succoring
• reprieving
• solacing

3

as in petitioning

to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner

bereaved parents continued to besiege the president with pleas to end the war

Synonyms & Similar Words

• petitioning
• begging
• praying
• imploring
• entreating
• asking
• beseeching
• appealing (to)
• conjuring
• supplicating
• pleading (to)
• calling upon
• importuning
• requiring
• soliciting
• calling on
• requesting
• impetrating
• invoking
• suing
• forcing
• desiring
• coercing
• insisting
• demanding
• sponging
• claiming
• compelling
• bludging
• cadging
• commanding
• mooching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suggesting
• implying
• intimating
• hinting
• gratifying
• pleasing
• obliging
• satisfying
• pacifying
• appeasing
• conciliating
• comforting
• consoling
• placating
• contenting
• quieting
• mollifying