assediare
Meaning
- (transitive) to besiege, to lay siege to
- (figuratively, transitive) to weigh on, to trouble
- (figuratively, transitive) to beset, to surround
- (figuratively, transitive) to nag, to pester
Synonyms
Translations
assiéger
belagern
asediar
sitiar
assetjar
حاصر
belegeren
πολιορκώ
obsidereHyphenated as
as‧se‧dià‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/as.seˈdja.re/
Etymology
Perhaps a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin assediāre, reshaping of Classical Latin obsidēre. Alternatively, derived from assedio (“siege”) + -are (1ˢᵗ-conjugation verbal suffix).
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