Cabe reconocer que nuestra Europa no se ve, por así decirlo, asediada particularmente por grandes oleadas de candidatos al asilo, como sostiene de vez en cuando la extrema derecha.

Because Europe has not, so to speak, been excessively plagued by great waves of asylum-seekers, as the extreme right sometimes claims.

De repente, una población y un país que ya estaba asediado por la pobreza y el subdesarrollo se vieron devastados por una catástrofe natural asesina y despiadada de proporciones enormes.

A people and a country already plagued by poverty and underdevelopment were suddenly devastated by a merciless and murderous natural disaster of massive proportions.

asediar

to stalk {v.t.} (persecute)

asediar [asediando · asediado] {transitive verb}

asediar

to beset [beset · beset] {vb}

Es nuestra aportación a esta terrible profesión que cada vez está más asediada de mayores inseguridades.

This is our contribution to this cruel profession, which is increasingly beset by greater insecurity.

asediar(also: ajochar)

to besiege [besieged · besieged] {vb}

... asediados por toda clase de monstruos que los acechan sin tregua y que atormentan su cuerpo.

...besieged by all sorts of monsters that relentlessly pursue them, so their bodies are racked with pain.

No sé qué pasa que, justamente la política común que dispone de menos fondos, es la que se ve más asediada por solicitudes de todo tipo.

I do not know why it is precisely the common policy with the least funds that is most besieged by requests of all kinds.

Turquía necesita devolver la ciudad asediada de Varosha y detener los asentamientos ilegales y la invasión sobre la propiedad grecochipriota.

Turkey needs to return the besieged town of Varosha and to stop illegal settlements and the encroachment on to Greek Cypriot property.

asediar(also: hostigar, incomodar, molestar, atosigar)

to bother [bothered · bothered] {vb}

asediar(also: abacorar)

to harass [harassed · harassed] {v.t.}

Casi en todo el planeta, el mundo musulmán se siente humillado, acosado, asediado.

Almost everywhere on the planet the Moslem world is feeling humiliated, harassed and besieged.

asediar(also: molestar, importunar, chinchar)

to pester [pestered · pestered] {v.t.}

asediar

to blockade [blockaded · blockaded] {vb} [mil.]

asediar

to lay siege to {vb} [mil.]

El LRA asedia los pueblos del sur de Sudán: mata a los adultos y secuestra a los niños.

The LRA lay siege to southern Sudanese villages: killing the adults, taking the children.

asediar

to surround [surrounded · surrounded] {vb} [mil.]

SYNONYMS

Synonyms (Spanish) for "asediar":

asediar

acorralar- acosar- aislar- apabullar- arrinconar- bloquear- cercar- cerrar- circunvalar- confundir- cortar- encerrar- estrechar- impedir- incomunicar

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