All 4 Uses of
siege
in
I Am Malala
- The siege went on until late on 9 July, when the commander of the special forces outside was killed by a sniper in one of the minarets.†
p. 128.1 *
- By nightfall on 10 July, when the siege was finally over, around a hundred people had been killed including several soldiers and a number of children.†
p. 128.3
- It was after the Red Mosque siege that the Swat Taliban changed.†
p. 128.6
- We saw the Red Mosque where the siege had taken place, the wide, wide Constitution Avenue leading to the white-colonnaded buildings of the Parliament House and the Presidency, where Zardari now lived.†
p. 163.5
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
or:
any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble