Meaning & use
siege
A prolonged military operation in which an army surrounds a place to cut off supplies and force it to surrender.
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The city endured a brutal siege that lasted nearly a year before it fell.
Historians study the siege to understand how the defenders survived so long without food.
A note on using this word
The idiom 'under siege' is often used figuratively to describe intense pressure or criticism, not just military conflict.
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