besiege

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He knew the household would not be up, but he determined to sit down before it,--besiege it, in fact,--and carry off the cloth, the wool, and the white rabbit, when the enemy should first be moving And this is what he saw, as he came up to the cottage:--A young officer in the French uniform was getting in at Bertha's kitchen-window.

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  1. transitive verb To surround with hostile forces.
  2. transitive verb To crowd around; hem in.
  3. transitive verb To harass or importune, as with requests: Reporters besieged the winner for interviews.
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  1. Middle English besegen, probably alteration of assegen, from Old French assegier, from Vulgar Latin *assedicāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Vulgar Latin *sedicāre, to sit; see siege.

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  1. from Middle English besegen, bisegen, from be- + segen, besiege: see be- and siege, v.
 

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