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siege n
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a the offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
b (as modifier) siege warfare
2 a persistent attempt to gain something
3 a long tedious period, as of illness, etc.
4 Obsolete a seat or throne
5 ♦
lay siege to to besiege vb
6 tr to besiege or assail (C13: from Old French sege a seat, from Vulgar Latin sedicare (unattested) to sit down, from Latin sedere)
siege mentality n a state of mind in which a person believes that he or she is being constantly oppressed or attacked
Siege Perilous n (in Arthurian legend) the seat at the Round Table that could be filled only by the knight destined to find the Holy Grail and that was fatal to anyone else (from siege (in the archaic sense: a seat or throne))
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