Both Uses
besiege
in
The Ramayana
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- Stung to the heart with scorn and shame, With war and threats they madly came, Besieged my peaceful walls, and long To Míthilá did grievous wrong.†
Book 1 *besieged = surrounded and cut-off supplies; or overwhelmed
- Him great and mighty Ráma, best Of royal saints, in turn addressed: "What, Bharat, have I done, that thou Besiegest me,(394) a suppliant now?†
Book 2besiegest = surround and cut-off supplies; or overwhelmstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou besiege" in older English, today we say "You besiege."
Definitions:
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(1)
(besiege) to surround a place with armed forces and cut off supplies or attack; or more generally, to overwhelm someone with many requests, complaints, or attention, as if surrounding them and not letting up
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)