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besiege

verb as in surround; assault

verb as in bother

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"I got 12,000 fan letters a week. And I felt somewhat besieged."

From BBC

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

From Salon

Before “One Jewish Boy,” a play by Stephen Laughton, even had its premiere in London in 2018, the playwright and the play were besieged by antisemitic trolling and threats.

He says that near the besieged city of Pokrovsk, they were facing Russian storm attacks every single day.

From BBC

Trump shared a controversial AI-generated video of Gaza, appearing to depict the besieged enclave as a Mediterranean resort run and operated by the US president.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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