Siege
[siːdʒ] or [sidʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
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Definition
(n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
(n.) Hence, place or situation; seat.
(n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
(n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
(n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.
(n.) A workman's bench.
(v. t.) To besiege; to beset.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Investment.
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Definition
n. a sitting down with an army round or before a fortified place in order to take it by force: a continued endeavour to gain possession: (Shak.) a seat throne station: (Shak.) excrement: the floor of a glass-furnace: a workman's bench.—v.t. to lay siege to.—ns. Siege′-piece a coin generally of unusual shape and rude workmanship issued in a besieged place during stress of siege; Siege′-train the materials carried by an army for the purpose of laying siege to a place.—State of siege a condition of things in which civil law is suspended or made subordinate to military law; Minor state of siege a modification of the more severe rule in cases of merely domestic trouble.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a young woman to dream that she is in a siege, and sees cavalry around her, denotes that she will have serious drawbacks to enjoyments, but will surmount them finally, and receive much pleasure and profit from seeming disappointments.
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Examples
- Dana, then an officer of the War Department, accompanied me on the Vicksburg campaign and through a portion of the siege. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If we can get them on that mine, and explode it in good time, the siege will be over, replied his nephew decisively. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- We had no siege guns except six thirty-two pounders, and there were none at the West to draw from. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He defeated the Babylonian army, under Belshazzar, outside Babylon, and then laid siege to the town. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is this same shock-absorbing device which is used to catch the recoil on the immense siege guns used in modern warfare. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One battery, the siege guns and all the convalescent troops were sent on by water to Brazos Santiago, at the mouth of the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Rosecrans was ordered to move against the army that was detaching troops to raise the siege. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He rode through the town, visiting the wounded, and giving such orders as were necessary for the siege he meditated. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- From the time of the siege of Veii, the armies of Rome received pay for their service during the time which they remained in the field. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Undismayed by forty or fifty previous defeats, Glorvina laid siege to him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- On the 10th of December the siege of Savannah commenced. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I believe it was largely through his efforts and his advice that our siege was successful. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What wonder then, in time of siege, want, extreme heat, and drought, that it should make unaccustomed ravages? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was midwinter and during the siege we had rain and snow, thawing and freezing alternately. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- What a ridicule we make waiting here and laying siege to dead men. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They have braved the storms and sieges of three thousand years, and have been shaken by many an earthquake, but still they stand. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was left in the air, incapable of conducting sieges or establishing conquests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One word, in truth, had alarmed her more than battles or sieges, during which she trusted Raymond's high command would exempt him from danger. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Before his time catapults had been used in sieges, but never in battles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gibraltar has stood several protracted sieges, one of them of nearly four years' duration (it failed), and the English only captured it by stratagem. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There followed the most obstinate and dreadful of sieges. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For the standing of sieges Semitic peoples hold the palm. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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