Siege
21SIÈGE — n. m. Meuble ou autre objet fait pour s’asseoir. Donnez un siège. Donnez des sièges. Apportez, avancez un siège. Prenez un siège. Un siège pliant. Sièges de paille, de jonc, de canne ou cannés de tapisserie, etc., Sièges dont le fond est garni de …
22Siège — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Un siège est un type de meuble permettant de s asseoir (chaise, fauteuil, banc, tabouret, canapé etc.) Ce mot a souvent un sens figuré …
23siege — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ lengthy, long, prolonged (esp. BrE) ▪ four day, ten hour, etc. ▪ armed, gun, police …
24siege — UK [siːdʒ] / US [sɪdʒ] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms siege : singular siege plural sieges 1) an attack in which an army surrounds a castle or city in order to prevent the people inside from receiving food and water The troops prepared… …
25siege — n. 1) to conduct a siege of; to lay siege to 2) to lift, raise a siege 3) a state of siege (in a state of siege) 4) at, during a siege (he was killed at the siege of Leningrad) 5) under siege (a city under siege) * * * [siːdʒ] raise a siege to… …
26siege — siegeable, adj. /seej/, n., v., sieged, sieging. n. 1. 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… …
27siege — [[t]si͟ːʤ[/t]] sieges 1) N COUNT: also under N A siege is a military or police operation in which soldiers or police surround a place in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place. → See also state of siege We… …
28siege — 01. The [siege] of the town lasted until the people finally ran out of food, and had to surrender. 02. Over a million Soviet soldiers and civilians lost their lives during the [siege] of Stalingrad. 03. The army lay [siege] to the airport where… …
29siege — noun (C, U) 1 a military operation during which an army surrounds a place and tries to gain control of it by stopping supplies of food, weapons etc from reaching it: The siege lasted almost four months. | lay siege to (=start a siege): In June… …
30siege — n. 1 a a military operation in which an attacking force seeks to compel the surrender of a fortified place by surrounding it and cutting off supplies etc. b a similar operation by police etc. to force the surrender of an armed person. c the… …
