asediar

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (transitive) to besiege, to beleaguer (to beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender)
2. (transitive) to bother, to pester

Koppelteken as

a‧se‧diar

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/aseˈdjaɾ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin obsidiārī (“to waylay, to ambush”), from obsidium (“siege; ambush”), from obsideō (“to remain, to stay, to frequent; to besiege, to blockade”), whence English obsess.