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a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over timeor:
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
- I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun,Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- 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
- On the fifth day I had read up to Sherman's siege of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind,S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- 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
- Hundreds of enemies had given way before Max during the Siege of Rowan.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- 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
siege = a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time
siege = relating to the attack of a fortified place
siege = a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time
siege = military attack
siege = a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time
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
or:
any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble
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