Verb (used with object), : Vacationers besieged the travel office.    From Dictionary.com. 

And I don't think that liberalism long survives besiegement by thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Mamet writes about "this worldview with which I now found myself disenchanted: that everything is always wrong."] Reference

Matthew McConaughey, who sadly owns no upper-body garments, is the most notorious beneficiary of the besiegement ruse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Dezenhall: Crashing Nowhere: The Salahis' Interminable Exit] Reference

The West Bank is rapidly undergoing its own version of disengagement and besiegement, with similar predictable results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Leaders Declare Victory; Victory in Defeat] Reference

The besiegement of a people can only erode moderation, foment hatred, and bring Palestinians and Israelis back to darker times.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Roads Lead to Checkpoints] Reference

The Arab oil embargo, blamed on Israel, heightened the feeling of besiegement, as did the 1975 U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Israel Goes Rogue] Reference

Farrell's 1973 novel describes the months-long besiegement of a fictional Company outpost drawing primarily on the real-life siege of Lucknow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

There is nothing like a feeling of besiegement and desperation to make a political movement -- one that knows it is in its "last throes" -- show its true colors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

I visited Guantanamo and Camp Delta last summer, and the setting just knocked me over with all its exotic and bizarre touches, as well as with its overwhelming sense of claustrophobia and besiegement.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Conversation with Dan Fesperman about The Prisoner of Guantanamo] Reference

It is not probable, however, that Pemberton would have permitted a close besiegement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant — Complete] Reference

The friendly besiegement must go on day after day, until all opposition yields to grace, and the doors are lifted up, and the King of Glory can enter in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friend on the Road and Other Studies in the Gospels] Reference

The public's increasing wariness of trade agreements is easy enough to integrate into the narrative of eternal besiegement that free trade's advocates tend to construct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economist's View] Reference

"The truth was greater and stronger than what you saw on satellite TV screens .... we were adamant on ending that Israeli besiegement of the mosque even if it cost us our lives.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Indybay newswire] Reference

We had been in Chengtu only a few months when the Revolution broke out in 1911, and after a preliminary besiegement in the hospital there for three months, we made our way to Shanghai.    From Wordnik.com.  [China—Its People and Their Life] Reference

Israel would no longer have to bear the huge burden of a constant state of besiegement which drains it of resources and technology that could be better used to help themselves and their Arab neighbors.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Glory be, I have ut still! though for how long -- or me own head, for that matter -- in this state of besiegement, I can not say. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Hewitt, Investigator] Reference

"The Archbishop of Cologne, my Lord, is engaged in the besiegement of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strong Arm] Reference

SPENCER: (Nixon used to ensure that unruly hippies would be at his rallies in order to stoke the silent-majority sense of besiegement and make himself look heroic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jezebel] Reference

The besiegement will soon be ended.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Tabernacle Sermons] Reference

That would be as slow a method as besiegement. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strong Arm] Reference