besiege

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One scene that stuck with me: As Union troops besiege Atlanta, shells are exploding, people flee in panic.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025

The feeling of being in a great city as raging infernos besiege it but don’t quite subsume it?

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2025

His misdeeds follow him to a Passover Seder, where he reads the story of the plagues that besiege the Egyptians, who have enslaved the Jewish people.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

That decision to besiege rather than directly attack the giant Azovstal plant means that “many Russian units remain fixed in the city and cannot be redeployed,” the British assessment said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2022

Ned would surely have prevailed upon Robert to bring up his whole force, to encircle Stannis and besiege the besiegers.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin