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"
1The New South Wales government adopted new bail laws after the siege.
2There were two types of siege artillery in Europe at this time.
3Rights groups say thousands died in the army siege of the town.
4The government positively views all attempts to break the siege on Gaza.
5Successful expeditions to the region no longer focussed on large, siege-style ascents.
1In May he took Upsala; by midsummer he was besieging Stockholm itself.
2People were besieging the provision shops to lay in stores of food.
3Stunned relatives gathered there, some weeping quietly, others besieging officials with questions.
4And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna.
5They had spent more than a year besieging San Michele and Podgora.
1At Camp Bowie the Apaches were found beleaguering the post.
2The beleaguering force outside the fort, he said, must outnumber ours two to one.
3What was the disposition of the beleaguering force?
4Several French, English, and Navarrois cavaliers resorted on this occasion to the camp of the beleaguering army.
5One might have imagined he saw before him the tented camps of a beleaguering host of Brobdingnagians.
1The moral aspects of the military blockade as a weapon in times of peace had been bothering me.
2The military blockade before them means they can go no further and for some it strikes close to home.
3Shipping 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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Translations for military blockade