Siege - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
Extra examples
The castle was built to withstand a siege.
The city is in a state of siege.
He lived in the castle when the French sieged it.
...the implacable attackers placed the castle under a prolonged siege...
He was obliged to convert the siege into a blockade.
The city was put into a position to stand a siege.
After a long siege they reduced the fort.
The town was captured after a siege lasting ten days.
The city was declared to be in a state of siege.
The siege ended peacefully after the gunman gave himself up.
The armies laid siege to Vienna in 1529.
A group of young men were always at the stage door, trying to lay siege to the girls.
Bread was rationed during the siege of the city
This siege was church-work, and therefore went on slowly.
Word forms
singular: siege
plural: sieges
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