assiege

See also: assiégé and assiège

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -iːdʒ

Noun

assiege (plural assieges)

(obsolete) A siege.

Verb

assiege (third-person singular simple present assieges, present participle assieging, simple past and past participle assieged)

(transitive) To besiege.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xi:
  On th'other side, th' assieged Castles ward, / Their stedfast stonds did mightily maintaine […]

Anagrams

aegises, ægises

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