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

"If they besiege us here, where can we go then? How long will this suffering continue? We have been displaced about six or seven times," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024

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

Adah the Poor Thing, hemiplegious egregious besiege us.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver