beleaguer

And yet I cannot think that any Scottish or French rovers could land in such force as to beleaguer the fortalice.

Somehow that seemed to make her matter less, and Dodo had not at present made any determined effort to beleaguer her.

For Edward took his army to beleaguer Calais, and after blockading it for nearly a year forced it to surrender.

The bold beleaguer'd post the hero gains, And the hard siege with various fate sustains.

In his tragedy of Ezelino, after the tyrant's downfall, a captain is sent to beleaguer Treviso, and reduce Ezelino's garrison.