lay siege to
围攻,围困,围堵,围剿
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- : the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
- : any prolonged or persistent effort to overcome resistance.
- : a series of illnesses, troubles, or annoyances besetting a person or group: a siege of head colds.
- : a prolonged period of trouble or annoyance.
- : Also sedge. Ornithology. a flock of herons.the station of a heron at prey.
- : the shelf or floor of a glassmaking furnace on which the glass pots are set.
- : Obsolete. a seat, especially one used by a person of distinction, as a throne.station as to rank or class.
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sieged, sieg·ing.
- : to assail or assault; besiege.
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Dating apps are using images from the siege to ban rioters’ accountsThe IPO is expected in February, Bloomberg has reported.
He is also the youngest founder and the one whose company is the most under siege.
The siege of the Capitol came close to being far worse, and there are indications that some rioters intended to harm lawmakers.
Some lawmakers are now taken aback by how Irving managed the siege.
Once shepherded to the secure location, Pence remained there throughout the entire siege, even as most key congressional leaders were evacuated to an off-site secure location, according to administration and congressional aides.
And even as the bloody siege continues, so, too, do signs of life.
It has long been a battle cry in conservative circles that Christmas is under siege.
The Kurds claimed at least 100 Islamic militants were killed in the two-day battle to lift the siege.
As a cafe in Sydney, Australia came under siege by a hostage-taking gunman on Monday, those nearby attempted to flee the area.
Purely by chance, Anna Coren had landed in Sydney just as the chocolate shop siege began.
After an eight weeks' siege, a breach having been made, the city surrendered, and a month later the fort followed the example.
This is a conquered city, virtually if not nominally in a state of siege, without assignable period.
During the siege of Acre he commanded the covering force, and pushed reconnaissances far and wide.
To pull through such a siege, the old settlers usually did much better than the new.