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Kristina Mladenovic - Laura Siegemund
Mlad - Les Alemands!
Laura - La resistence. Oh la la! Un siegement
Siege definition, 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 ...
siege meaning, definition, what is siege: the surrounding of a place by an armed force in order to defeat those defending it...
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 thereby making capture possible.
2.
any prolonged or persistent effort to overcome resistance.
3.
a series of illnesses, troubles, or annoyances besetting a person or group:
a siege of head colds.
4.
a prolonged period of trouble or annoyance.
5.
- a flock of herons.
- the station of a heron at prey.
6.
the shelf or floor of a glassmaking furnace on which the glass pots are set.
7.
Obsolete.
- a seat, especially one used by a person of distinction, as a throne.
- station as to rank or class.
8.
to assail or assault; besiege.
9.
lay siege to, to besiege:
The army laid siege to the city for over a month.
1175-1225 1175-1225; (noun) Middle English sege < Old French: seat, noun derivative of siegier < Vulgar Latin *sedicāre to set, derivative of Latin sedēre to sit1; (v.) Middle English segen, derivative of the noun
Related forms
siegeable, adjective
unsieged, adjective
Synonyms
1. Siege, blockade are terms for prevention of free movement to or from a place during wartime. Siege implies surrounding a city and cutting off its communications, and usually includes direct assaults on its defenses. Blockade is applied more often to
1.
- the offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
- (as modifier): siege warfare
2.
a persistent attempt to gain something
3.
a long tedious period, as of illness, etc
Word Origin and History for siege
n.
early 13c., "a seat" (as in Siege Perilous, early 13c., the vacant seat at Arthur's Round Table, according to prophecy to be occupied safely only by the knight destined to find the Holy Grail), from Old French sege "seat, throne," from Vulgar Latin *sedicum "seat," from Latin sedere "sit" (see sedentary ). The military sense is attested from c.1300; the notion is of an army "sitting down" before a fortress.
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