asediar

Betekenis

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

Met koppelteken als

a‧se‧diar

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/aseˈdjaɾ/

Etymologie

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.