The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
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Examples for "siege"
Examples for "siege"
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The New South Wales government adopted new bail laws after the siege.
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There were two types of siege artillery in Europe at this time.
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Rights groups say thousands died in the army siege of the town.
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The government positively views all attempts to break the siege on Gaza.
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Successful expeditions to the region no longer focussed on large, siege-style ascents.
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At Camp Bowie the Apaches were found beleaguering the post.
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The beleaguering force outside the fort, he said, must outnumber ours two to one.
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What was the disposition of the beleaguering force?
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Several French, English, and Navarrois cavaliers resorted on this occasion to the camp of the beleaguering army.
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One might have imagined he saw before him the tented camps of a beleaguering host of Brobdingnagians.
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The moral aspects of the military blockade as a weapon in times of peace had been bothering me.
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The military blockade before them means they can go no further and for some it strikes close to home.
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Shipping officials at a conference in Malaysia on Monday called for a military blockade along the coast of Somalia to stop the surge.
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In May he took Upsala; by midsummer he was besieging Stockholm itself.
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People were besieging the provision shops to lay in stores of food.
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Stunned relatives gathered there, some weeping quietly, others besieging officials with questions.
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And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna.
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They had spent more than a year besieging San Michele and Podgora.
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We find that the advance guards of winter are besieging the house.
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French-American Attack on Savannah.-InSeptember, D'Estaing joined Lincoln in besieging that city.
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The besieging army numbered about five thousand French and eleven thousand Americans.
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She is besieging London, and she wishes the American to remain neutral.
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Around the other city lay two armies besieging it, with flashing arms.
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A carpet of bushy grass was besieging the edge of the road.
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The blockade was carefully prepared, as if they were besieging a fortress.
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Yet he knew that his power was besieging her on every side.
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Truths which he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably.
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They were bent on besieging thy palace, perhaps upon demanding thy abdication.
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You didn't have anybody besieging you to marry before you were thirty.
