besieger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person or force that surrounds and attacks a fortified place in order to make it surrender

   The besieger cut the city's supply routes before beginning the assault.

Formed from besiege + the agent suffix -er. Besiege came through Middle English and Old French from words built on siege, originally a seat and then a military encampment around a defended place.

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