besiege

Preposition: for

• month: He was surrounded and besieged for five months when a relief party was sent from England.

Object

• fortress: Some troops were left behind to besiege the fortress of Namur, which fell on 25 August.
• castle: Montrose orders up artillery from Newcastle to besiege the castle.
• army: The rebels captured neither Windsor nor Dover; the besieging army left Windsor to pursue the king into Norfolk.
• city: Charles, who had been besieging the city, withdrew, unwilling to be caught between two enemies.
• force: The English forces besieged the Danes on the island.
• town: My new regiment formed part of the force which, under Marshal Lannes, was then besieging the Spanish town of Saragossa.

Subject

• army: And the last outsider to arrive had been a French balloonist who escaped a Paris besieged by the Prussian Army in 1870.
• force: In 1585 Antwerp was besieged by Spanish forces under the command of the Duke of Parma.
• people: I was besieged by people asking me to make corsets for them.

Preposition: by

• army: And the last outsider to arrive had been a French balloonist who escaped a Paris besieged by the Prussian Army in 1870.
• force: In 1585 Antwerp was besieged by Spanish forces under the command of the Duke of Parma.
• people: I was besieged by people asking me to make corsets for them.
• mob: During violent riots the Chamber of Deputies was besieged by a right-wing mob.

Modifying Another Word

• unsuccessfully: The country to the north and south of Toledo is ravaged and the city unsuccessfully besieged for a month.
• again: The Castle was again besieged for 3 days by the MacLeans of Mull.
• then: The Rebels then besieged Skipton, Scrope in the end agreeing to join them.
• also: In addition The Medieval Siege Society will also besiege the Keep.
• twice: However, Chepstow Castle enjoyed a relatively peaceful existence until the Civil War, when it was besieged twice.
• successfully: He successfully besieged Chepstow Castle during Cromwell's campaign in South Wales during the Second Civil War.