Besiege vs Importune - What's the difference?
besiege | importune |
(label) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
To beleaguer, lay siege to, beset.
to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
To bother, trouble, irritate.
* , II.17:
To harass with persistent requests.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
* Jonathan Swift
To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
(obsolete) To import; to signify.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Grievous, severe, exacting.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
(obsolete) inopportune; unseasonable
(obsolete) troublesome; vexatious; persistent
* Spenser
* Francis Bacon
As verbs the difference between besiege and importune
is that besiege is (label) to beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer while importune is .besiege
English
Verb
(besieg)importune
English
Verb
(importun)- To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me.
- You were kneel'd to, and importun'd otherwise / By all of us;.
- Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands.
- It importunes death.
Adjective
(en adjective)- And therewithall he fiercely at him flew, / And with importune outrage him assayld [...].
- And their importune fates all satisfied.
- Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual.