siege

IPA: sˈidʒ

(heading) Military action.
(military) A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
(US) A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.
(figuratively) A prolonged assault or attack.
(heading) A seat.
(obsolete) A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.
(obsolete) An ecclesiastical see.
(obsolete) The place where one has his seat; a home, residence, domain, empire.
The seat of a heron while looking out for prey.
A flock of heron.
(obsolete) A toilet seat.
(obsolete) The anus; the rectum.
(obsolete) Excrements, stool, fecal matter.
(obsolete) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
(obsolete) The floor of a glass-furnace.
(obsolete) A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.

(transitive, uncommon) To assault or blockade a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.

Examples of "siege" in Sentences

The siege was successful.
At the end of the siege Mario suicide.
Mehmed the Conqueror personally laid the siege.
The siege has no parallel in warfare of the time.
The army of the Negus began the siege of the fort.
Jauhar, livid at this, tightened the siege further.
As the siege continued, the scarcity of food worsened.
The end of the siege prevented the loss of the castle.
The aftermath of the siege was to prove troublesome for Pausanias.
The map attempts to explain the logic and strategic background of the siege.
Mohammed says he stopped believing in a peaceful solution to the conflict here when Israel imposed a blockade, or what he calls a siege of Gaza.
Palestinian IT Association (PITA) reports on the IT sector in Gaza, "We are able to export software and communication systems to the Middle East", "but the siege is our biggest obstacle" referring to the limitation on technologies Israel allows into Gaza.
The date of the beginning as well as the end of the siege is here carefully marked (compare Eze 24: 1; Jer 39: 1; 52: 4-6); from which it appears, that, with a brief interruption caused by Nebuchadnezzar's marching to oppose the Egyptians who were coming to its relief but who retreated without fighting, the siege lasted a year and a half.