Definitions for siege

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siege siege

Spelling: [seej]

IPA: /sidʒ/

Siege is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in siege (eegis).

Definitions for siege

noun

1. the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
2. any prolonged or persistent effort to overcome resistance.
3. a series of illnesses, troubles, or annoyances besetting a person or group:
4. a prolonged period of trouble or annoyance.
5. Also, sedge. Ornithology. a flock of herons. the station of a heron at prey.
6. the shelf or floor of a glassmaking furnace on which the glass pots are set.
7. Obsolete. a seat, especially one used by a person of distinction, as a throne. station as to rank or class.

Idioms

1. lay siege to, to besiege:

verb (used with object)

1. to assail or assault; besiege.

Origin of siege

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English sege Old French: seat, noun derivative of siegier Vulgar Latin *sedicāre to set, derivative of Latin sedēre to sit¹; (v.) M

Examples for siege

One thousand of the best men in the fleet were sent to assist in the siege.

In late August, U.S. airpower and Iranian-backed militias broke the ISIS siege on the town of Amerli.

The siege of Boston marked the opening phase of the American Revolution.

They used every device of ingenious minds to push the siege.

Evidently the enemy was bent on the siege of Fort Providence.

The return from this Crusade was as disastrous as that from the siege of Troy.

In Iraq, Tehran was our silent partner, working to break an ISIS siege and edging out Maliki.

After the first day of the siege there was scant leisure for funeral rites.

Steve Garth, who works in Circular Quay, was inside the Cartier jewelry store near the café when the siege began.

The Kurds claimed at least 100 Islamic militants were killed in the two-day battle to lift the siege.