Answer to "Besieged" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ATTACKED , but the solution may also be OVERRUN which is one of the most recent solution (2019 in Universal uClick).

Besieged crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
ATTACKED	17 %	8
ENRINGED	17 %	8
UNDERFIRE	17 %	9
INCRISIS	17 %	8
OVERRUN	17 %	7
BESET	17 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Besieged

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• enclosed
• assaulted
• attacked
• beleaguered
• beset
• blockade
• blockaded
• blocked
• caught
• confined
• cordoned
• cornered

Crossword Answer definitions

ATTACKED verb

1. To apply violent force to someone or something.
2. To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
3. To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
4. To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
5. To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
6. To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
7. To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
8. To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
9. To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result ATTACKED

• Went after
• Beset by marauders
• Took the offensive
• Set upon
• Began working on energetically
• Made a sortie.
• Besieged
• Bombarded
• Stormed
• Beset

More clues leading to the result ENRINGED

• Besieged.

More clues leading to the result UNDERFIRE

• Peppered by criticisms
• Being attacked
• Being sharply criticized (1983)
• Being severely criticized
• In battle.
• Censured.
• In trouble
• Besieged
• Where "flanked" is in the dictionary?
• Being harshly criticized

More clues leading to the result INCRISIS

• Beyond stressed
• Besieged
• Desperate, perhaps

More clues leading to the result OVERRUN

• Exceed, as a time limit
• Infested
• Infest
• Defeat, militarily
• Plague
• Exceed, as a budget
• Invade
• Successfully invade
• Deluge
• Ravage.

More clues leading to the result BESET

• Plague
• Worry
• Assail
• Attack from all directions
• Under siege
• Harass
• Under attack
• Widely assailed
• Harried
• Hem in