Besieger

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who besieges.

    "For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder."

  2. 2
    an enemy who lays siege to your position wordnet
  3. 3
    an energetic petitioner wordnet

Synonyms

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sieger

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"For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder."

Etymology

From besiege + -er.

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