Definition of Siege

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Definition of Siege

Siege

A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.

Hence, place or situation; seat.

Rank; grade; station; estimation.

Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.

The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.

Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.

The floor of a glass-furnace.

A workman's bench.

To besiege; to beset.

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Siege Quotations

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.
Tim LaHaye

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
Gary Ackerman

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
Lionel Richie

Siege Translations

siege in Dutch is belegering, beleg
siege in German is belagern, Belagerung
siege in Hungarian is ostrom
siege in Italian is assedio

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