gherao
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Is gherao a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (India) A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met.Examples: "They had done a gherao and trapped the manager in his office for a whole day."; "This was an invitation to strike: according to one estimate, there were more than 1,200 gheraos in the first six months of the first UF-LF government."; "They led us in a mob to the administrative office of the Patna University, blockaded the main entrance and besieged the vice chancellor's office in a gherao […]"India
verb (English)
1. (India, transitive) To surround for this purpose.Examples: "One day the city magistrate asked the army for help to curb a protest march by women Congress workers who had threatened to gherao the officials in the divisional office."; "In reply, the cultivators, apparently now protesting under the banner of the BKU gheraoed the power station."; "Further incensed by the findings of two Citizen's Inquiry Committees that he had set up to probe the earlier police firings in Gaya and Patna, JP now announced a programme that involved picketing the Assembly, gheraoing the residences of MLAs, […]"Indiatransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary