Look up: siege

1. siege
   [n] - the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
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2. Siege
   Siege noun [ Middle English sege , Old French siege , French siège a seat, a siege; confer Italian seggia , seggio , zedio , a seat, asseggio , assedio , a siege, French assiéger to be...
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3. Siege
   Siege transitive verb To besiege; to beset. [ R.] « Through all the dangers that can siege The life of man.» Buron.
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4. siege
   1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. 'Upon the very siege of justice.' 'A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.' (Spenser) 'In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it 'The siege perilous.'' (Tennyson) ... 2. Hence, place or s...
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5. siege
   besieging noun the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
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6. Siege
   • (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 th...
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7. siege
   (from the article `fortification`) ...logs on the parapet of the entrenchment, and many of Lee`s victories were the result of his ability to use hasty entrenchments as a base for ... French military engineer who revolutionized the art of siege craft and defensive fortifications. He fought in all of France`s wars of Louix XIV`s ... Fo...
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8. siege
   siege 1. The surrounding and blockading of a city, town, or fortress by an army attempting to capture it. 2. A military or police operation in which troops or the police surround a place and cut off all outside access in order to force a surrender. 3. A prolonged period, as of an illness: 'She had...
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9. siege
   attacking a castle in order to cause surrender
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10. siege
    siege, assault against a city or fortress with the purpose of capturing it. The history of siegecraft parallels the development of fortification and, later, artillery. In early times battering rams and bores were employed to break down the walls and gates of a fortified place (see castle) if decepti...
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11. Siege
    Siege is the collective noun for a group of cranes.
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12. Siege
    (band) `Siege` was an American punk band from Weymouth, Massachusetts. They were active in the 1980s Boston hardcore scene from 1983 to 1985, and reunited briefly in the early 1990s. Siege`s form of intense hardcore incorporated fast tempos together with vocalist Mahoney`s screeches and growl...
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13. Siege
    (book) `Siege` is a book collecting the articles of American neo-Nazi James Mason, former leader of the National Socialist Liberation Front and Universal Order. It collects the text of Mason`s SIEGE newsletter (1980-1986) and other propaganda, arranging it according to topic. It...
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14. Siege
    (John Kelly) image= --> `Siege` (`John Kelly`) is a fictional character, owned by Marvel Comics, who exists in the Marvel Universe. Creative origins: John Kelly was initially created by Dwayne McDuffie and Gregory Wright as a pseudo-preview of their then-upcoming relaunch of Deathlok as well ...
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15. Siege
    (film) `Siege` is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. It was shot by Julien Bryan, a Pennsylvanian photographer and cameraman who later established the International Film Foundation.<ref name="nfr">--> Siege<...
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16. Siege
    (video game) `Siege` is a computer game developed by Mindcraft in 1992 for the PC/MS-DOS. Plot: Siege is a castle-combat war game in which the player controls either the hordes of darkness (orcs, trolls, domugs, tekhirs, and the like) or the warriors of good (humans, dwarves, an...
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17. Siege
    (comics) Dark Avengers #13-15<br>Dark Wolverine #82-84<br>Fallen (title not final)<br>Mighty Avengers #35-36<br>New Avengers #61-64<br>New Mutants #11<br>Origins of Siege #1<br>Siege #1-4<br>Siege: The Cabal
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