Siege

Noun

 * 1) seat
 * 2)  A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.
 * 3) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book III:
 * Thenne the Bisshop of Caunterbury was fette and he blessid the syeges with grete Royalte and deuocyon, and there sette the viii and xx knyghtes in her syeges [...].
 * 1) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
 * To th'vpper part, where was aduaunced hye / A stately siege of soueraigne maiestye; / And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay [...].
 * 1)  An ecclesiastical see.
 * 2)  The place where one has his seat; a home, residence, domain, empire.
 * 3) The seat of a heron while looking out for prey; a flock of heron.
 * 4)  A privy or lavatory.
 * 5)  The anus; the rectum.
 * 6) * 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17:
 * Another ground were certain holes or cavities observable about the siege; which being perceived in males, made some conceive there might be also a feminine nature in them.
 * 1) military action
 * 2) A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
 * 3) * 1748. David Hume.  Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Section 3.  § 5.
 * The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.

Verb

 * 1)  To assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.

Adjectives for Siege
vigorous; lingering; wanton; severe; bitter; disastrous; moving; protracted; creditable; wreckful; amiable; fatal; famous; fearful; implacable; repeated; hateful; bloody.

Verbs for Siege
brave—; breast—; endure—; engage in—., extend—; intrench against—; lay—; maintain—; parry—; prolong—; protract—; repel—; resist—; submit to—; survive—; yield to—; weather—; withstand—; —annihilates; —beleaguers; —devastates; —grips; —impoverishes; —lags;  —ravages;  — starves; —undermines; —blockades.

Thesaurus
attack, beleaguer, beleaguerment, besetment, besiege, besiegement, blockade, blockading, bottle up, bout, circumscription, confinement, cordon off, cordoning, encircle, encirclement, enclosure, encompassment, envelopment, go, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, inclusion, investment, lay siege to, onslaught, pincer movement, quarantine, seizure, spell, vertical envelopment

Alternative forms

 * syege

Etymology
From sege, siege, seige (modern French siège), from  *undefined:, ultimately from  sedes:.

Noun

 * Arabic: حصار
 * Bosnian: opsada
 * Catalan: setge
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 攻城戰, 攻城战,  包圍戰,  包围战, ,  ,  圍困,  围困
 * Croatian: opsada
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: asiejo
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 攻城戦, 包囲
 * Korean: 포위 공격
 * Latin: obsidio nominative, obsidionis genitive
 * Norwegian: beleiring
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: belägring

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: πολιορκώ
 * Hungarian: ostromol
 * Ido: asiejar


 * Italian:
 * Latin: obsidere
 * Norwegian: beleire
 * Russian: осаждать, осадить
 * Spanish:, asediar
 * Swedish: belägring

Verb
siege