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Definition

a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time

or:

any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble

The Siege of Leningrad lasted 872 days.

siege = the surrounding and prolonged attack

The company feels under siege.
Vicksburg had fallen, fallen after a long and bitter siege,
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

siege = a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time

I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun,
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

siege = relating to the attack of a fortified place

the Witch and her crew will almost certainly fall back to her House and prepare for a siege.
C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

siege = a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time

On the fifth day I had read up to Sherman's siege of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind,
S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders

siege = military attack

Look at the siege of Mont St. Michel, at which it was considered unsporting to win through the defenders' lack of water.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

siege = a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time

Hundreds of enemies had given way before Max during the Siege of Rowan.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

siege = a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time

or:

any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble

The poem in which the Greek, poet, Homer, describes the siege and fall of Troy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
It was like being under siege.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
He had not telephoned Roark since the beginning of the siege.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
They would stand a siege for weeks, and by that time yet more dwarves might come, and yet more, for Thorin had many relatives.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
The Siege of the Fairies.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
What we're concerned about is how you'll be able to hold up in a battle that may drag on for hours, or even weeks if it's a siege.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
The Iliad is the story of the siege of Troy, which will fall in the dust, and of its defenders who will be killed in battle.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A siege would be a miserable anticlimax.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
CHAPTER XXVII THE SIEGE OF KEMP'S HOUSE Kemp read a strange missive, written in pencil on a greasy sheet of paper.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
Helen said, "Perhaps the Wilcoxes are beginning the siege."
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
So here, after all my elaborate preparations for the siege of the White Sphinx, was a meek surrender.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
And death is less bitter than to live on and never have the beauty that we came here laying siege to so many days.
Homer -- The Odyssey

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