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What does besiege mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
  3. to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
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A holiday in Peru turns into an endurance test, as a whole sequence of health problems besiege me throughout, and for several weeks thereafter.
It's a bright idea to have crooked cops besiege the police station so that the good cops and their prisoners have to join forces to repel the invaders.
Catherine is a young woman and she asks questions, going right to the heart of the problems and challenges that besiege the Church of her time.
The rebel response has been to besiege the strategically important town of Kidal.
The names «Gog and Magog» refer to this prophecy of Ezekiel, describing how Satan will lead the nations to besiege the New Jerusalem.
Assad reacts violently by giving the order to besiege the city and to bombard it with heavy artillery.

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