siege

5 letters · noun · scores 800 in SpellHuntr

noun

the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack

Siege in a sentence

The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy.

Liu Pang's general Han Hsin won the strategic city of Hsing-yang for him, but Hsiang-Yü put Liu Pang under siege there.

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