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besieging - the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack. beleaguering, military blockade, siege. blockade, encirclement - a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
A clever plan of selling off your friends in order to buy off your enemies. A comment in the British newspaper, The Manchester Guardian, February 1939. Nowadays, when we use the word 'appeasement', we take it to mean: 'giving in to a bully'. Consequently, many people have criticised Chamberlain for appeasing Hitler. This is not quite fair, because in the 1930s, the word 'appeasement' meant what we would today call 'negotiation'; Chamberlain, realising that 'collective security' had failed, tried to negotiate peace with Hitler.