Besieged and Launched

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Besieged adjective - Surrounded by hostile forces.

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Launched and besieged are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Launched" instead a verb "Besieged".

Nearby Words: besieging, besieger

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Besieged and launched are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Besieged" instead a verb "Launched".

Nearby Words: launch, launching, launcher, launchable

In fact, the Black Plague is thought to have originated in 1346, when the Mongols launched bubonic plague-infected corpses over the walls of Crimean city of Kaffa (now Feodosia) that was besieged.

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During World War II, Australian troops managed to halt a blitzkrieg launched by Rommel's Afrika Corps (the first Allied force to do so) and subsequently spent over six months besieged in the city of Tobruk in eastern Libya.

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