besiegers
Army blocking fortress
Besiegers are those who lay siege to a fortified place, surrounding it to cut off supplies and force surrender.
The term extends to anyone who presses relentlessly: Besiegers of the governor's office demanded answers.
Reporters, creditors, or admirers can all be besiegers when they won't relent.
Those launching offensive action
- assailantsPeople who attack others
- invadersThose who enter by force
- aggressorsInitiators of hostility
- armiesOrganized military forces
forces · troops · warriors · combatants · soldiers · battalions · legions · conquerors
Passionate advocates for change
- RomansAncient Italy's imperial people
- MongolsGenghis's conquering people
- NormansViking-descended medieval conquerors
- VikingsMedieval Scandinavian seafarers
Spartans · Persians · Macedonians · catapults · trebuchets · battering rams · ladders · sappers
People who intimidate repeatedly
- tormentorsThose who cause anguish
- pursuersThose who chase
- houndersThose who persistently pursue
- demandersThose who require something
creditors · reporters · paparazzi · suitors · petitioners · lobbyists · protesters · picketers
attackers
Those launching offensive action
- assailantsPeople who attack others
- invadersThose who enter by force
- aggressorsInitiators of hostility
armies · forces · troops · warriors · combatants · soldiers · battalions · legions · conquerors · raiders
crusaders
Passionate advocates for change
- RomansAncient Italy's imperial people
- MongolsGenghis's conquering people
- NormansViking-descended medieval conquerors
Vikings · Spartans · Persians · Macedonians · catapults · trebuchets · battering rams · ladders · sappers · miners
harassers
People who intimidate repeatedly
- tormentorsThose who cause anguish
- pursuersThose who chase
- houndersThose who persistently pursue
demanders · creditors · reporters · paparazzi · suitors · petitioners · lobbyists · protesters · picketers · crowds
- siegesbattering ram, trebuchet, catapult, scaling ladders, bombardment
- besieged citySettlement encircled by attackers