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Noun
/sēj/,
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sieges, plural;
  1. A military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside
    • - Verdun had withstood a siege of ten weeks
    • - siege warfare
  2. A similar operation by a police or other force to compel the surrender of an armed person

  3. A prolonged period of misfortune
    • - I've been having a siege of headaches
  1. the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
  2. A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by attrition or assault. The term derives from sedere, Latin for "to sit". ...
  3. Siege was an American hardcore punk band from Weymouth, Massachusetts. They were active in the 1980s Boston hardcore scene from 1983 to 1985, and reunited briefly in the early 1990s.
  4. Siege is a book collecting the articles of American neo-Nazi James Mason, former leader of the National Socialist Liberation Front and Universal Order. It collects the text of Mason's SIEGE newsletter (1980-1986) and other propaganda, arranging it according to topic. ...
  5. Siege is an American comic book storyline that ran from January 2010 to May 2010. Published by Marvel Comics, it deals with the aftermath of the Dark Reign company-wide storyline, which led to a shift of power in the Marvel Universe toward Norman Osborn, a former supervillain who, through ...
  6. Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. It was shot by Julien Bryan, a Pennsylvanian photographer and cameraman who later established the International Film Foundation.
  7. Siege (John Kelly) is a fictional character, owned by Marvel Comics, who exists in the Marvel Universe.
  8. Siege is a computer game developed by Mindcraft in 1992 for the PC/MS-DOS.
  9. The Siege is a 1998 American action-thriller-drama film directed by Edward Zwick. The film is about a fictional situation in which terrorist cells have made several attacks on New York City. It stars Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, and Bruce Willis.
  10. The following is a list of episodes from the USA Network original series The Dead Zone. The series debuted on June 16, 2002.
  11. 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 privy or lavatory. ...
  12. For a young woman to dream that she is in a siege, and sees cavalry around her, denotes that she will have serious drawbacks to enjoyments, but will surmount them finally, and receive much pleasure and profit from seeming disappointments.
  13. To mount an extended assault on a mountain by moving laboriously upward through a series of progressively higher camps. Siege tactics include the use of oxygen, previously cached equipment dumps, and high-altitude porters to do the heavy lifting.
  14. Military blockade of a city or fortification, designed to force it to surrender. The besiegers used three main techniques; close assault, bombardment, and capitulation. ...
  15. (pronounced seej) Blocking the supply lines and escape routes of a city to force it to surrender. A siege usually meant one army trapped in a city, slowly running out of food and fresh water, with the opposing army camped outside.  Famous sieges were held at Petersburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson.
  16. All of the operations carried out to take a stronghold
  17. The military tactic that involved the surrounding and isolation of a castle, town, or army, by another army, until the trapped forces were starved into surrender.
  18. to assail or attack a fortification by surrounding it until the defenders are compelled to surrender; any prolonged effort (besiege) to overcome resistance. See LAST STAND.
  19. A siege is a military blockade of a city of fortified place in which the attackers intend to compel the inhabitants to surrender. Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.)
  20. The surrounding of a fortified place with the intent to take it, usually by blockade or bombardment
  21. To surround and cut off supplies to an army or town until they surrender
  22. To isolate a fortified place in order to make it surrender.
  23. an attack upon a fortified place.  Most sieges are nothing more than a waiting game, blocking off supplies to the enemy, until they are too hungry or weak and give up.
  24. Although not an officially recognized term under international humanitarian law, it is generally understood to mean the capture of a city or geographic area by one party to an armed conflict, and the subsequent exertion of pressure upon that area in an attempt to force surrender.
  25. (O.F. n.) royal seat, holy seat