Besieging
Besieging noun - The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
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Synonyms for Besieging
Mob and besieging are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mob" instead a verb "Besieging".
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- After besieging her domain and exposing the false goddess Issus, Carter simply hands her over to an angry mob to do with her as they will, resulting in her literally being torn apart.
Source: Non-Protagonist Resolver - Gaius Octavian once shamed an angry mob besieging the Curia and threatening to burn the senate alive for not not making Octavian dictator.
Source: Shaming the Mob - While recuperating aboard the Durendal, he draws cutesy child art depicting allegorical monsters murdering fellow quarians, Adam as a mercenary-slaughtering giant German Shepherd and the Deep Eyes slaughtering the mob besieging his family.
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