Usually means: Surrounding a place to capture.
Definitions Related words Mentions History
We found 18 dictionaries that define the word besieging:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. besieging: Merriam-Webster
  2. besieging: Collins English Dictionary
  3. besieging: Vocabulary.com
  4. Besieging, besieging: Wordnik
  5. besieging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. besieging: Wiktionary
  7. Besieging, besieging: Dictionary.com
  8. besieging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Besieging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. besieging: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. besieging: Rhymezone
  12. Besieging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. besieging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. besieging: FreeDictionary.org
  15. besieging: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Besieging: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. besieging: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. besieging: Encyclopedia

(Note: See besiege as well.)

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky
Definitions from Wiktionary (besieging)

▸ noun:  The act by which a place is besieged.

Similar:
siege, beleaguering, military blockade, besiegement, besetting, investment, leaguer, contravallation, embattlement, seising, more...

Opposite:
lifting siege, ending siege, relieving siege

Types:
blockade, encircle, beset, beleaguer, hem in, more...

Adjectives:
outside, constant, first, wooden, such

▸ Words similar to besieging

▸ Usage examples for besieging

▸ Idioms related to besieging

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Popular adjectives describing besieging

▸ Words that often appear near besieging

▸ Rhymes of besieging

▸ Invented words related to besieging

Similar:
siege, beleaguering, military blockade, besiegement, besetting, investment, leaguer, contravallation, embattlement, seising, more...

Opposite:
lifting siege, ending siege, relieving siege

Types:
blockade, encircle, beset, beleaguer, hem in, more...

Adjectives:
outside, constant, first, wooden, such



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.


(Click a button above to see words related to "besieging" that fit the given meter.)



Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux