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Definition
a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time
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any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble
or:
any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble
- She will not stay the siege of loving terms Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold: O, she's rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with beauty dies her store.1.1 — Act 1 Scene 1 — A public place (89% in)
- You, to remove that siege of grief from her, Betroth'd, and would have married her perforce, To County Paris:—then comes she to me, And with wild looks, bid me devise some means To rid her from this second marriage, Or in my cell there would she kill herself.5.3 — Act 5 Scene 3 — A churchyard; in it a Monument.... (79% in)
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