Dictionary entry

Besiege

Pronunciation: /bɪˈsiːdʒ/

Pronunciation

/bɪˈsiːdʒ/

Myanmar Meaning

(v) (မြို့စသည်ကို)စစ်တပ်ဖြင့်ဝိုင်းသည်။ ဝိုင်းအုံသည်။

Definition

besiege /bÇ'si:dʒ/ v ၁။ စစ္တပ္ျဖင့္ဝိုင္း(ထား)သည္။ Troy was besieged by the Greeks. ၂။ (က) ဝိုင္းအံုသည္။ The union spokesman was besieged by reporters. (ခ) ~ sb with sth (usu passive) ဝိုင္းေမးသည္။ စံုစမ္းသည္။ ေတာင္းဆိုသည္။ The BBC has been besieged with phone-calls and letters of complaint.

Examples

  1. The company’s offices were besieged by hundreds of people who had holidays planned.
  2. [besiege someone/something with something] : The department has been besieged with enquiries from students from all over the country.