Synonyms:
siege, besieging, beleaguering, military_blockade
Meaning: the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
Usage examples
They crossed from Africa to Spain and laid siege to Valencia.
Accordingly the French laid siege to and captured many small towns and castles.
Soon they reached the town of Alcocer, and after a siege captured it and lived in it.
Shortly we were before New Madrid, and the siege conducted by General Pope commenced.
Grant then settled down to a siege, and Lincoln and Halleck now sent him ample reinforcements.
The person whom the Czar had made commander-in-chief at the siege of Narva was a German officer.
In short, if they had stuck to the siege, the capture of Troy would have cost them less time and less trouble.
But the siege of Potidaea put an end to her inaction; she had men inside it: besides, she feared for the place.
Our destination was New Madrid, where we were to be a part of Pope's army in the siege and capture of that town.
'This,' she said, turning to the king, 'is the girl whom you have always believed to be your sister, and who vanished during the siege.