Crossword-Solution: SIEGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Siege | n. | A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. |
| Siege | n. | Hence, place or situation; seat. |
| Siege | n. | Rank; grade; station; estimation. |
| Siege | n. | Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. |
| Siege | n. | The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade. |
| Siege | n. | Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession. |
| Siege | n. | The floor of a glass-furnace. |
| Siege | n. | A workman's bench. |
| Siege | v. t. | To besiege; to beset. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SIEGE | anagram | SEEIG |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SIEGE (5)
With what delight could I have walkt thee round If I could joy in aught, sweet interchange Of Hill and Vallie, Rivers, Woods and Plaines, Now Land, now Sea, & Shores with Forrest crownd, Rocks, Dens, and Caves; but I in none of these Find place or refuge; and the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me, as from the hateful siege Of contraries; all good to me becomes Bane, and in Heav’n much worse would be my state.
Israeli forces occupied all of the southern portion of the country and mounted a summer-long siege of Beirut, which resulted in the evacuation of the PLO from Beirut in September under the supervision of a multinational force (MNF) made up of US, French, and Italian troops.
From there we could see the searchlights on Richmond Hill and Kingston Hill going to and fro, and about eleven the windows rattled, and we heard the sound of the huge siege guns that had been put in position there.
Finding her advance thus baffled, Glinda bent her brows in deep thought, while the Woggle-Bug said, in his most positive tone: “We must lay siege to the city, and starve it into submission.
Everybody in the hotel remained up until far into the night, and experienced the several kinds of terror which one reads about in books which tell of night attacks by Italians and by French mobs: the growing roar of the oncoming crowd; the arrival, with rain of stones and a crash of glass; the withdrawal to rearrange plans—followed by a silence ominous, threatening, and harder to bear than even the active siege and the noise.
Quotes with SIEGE (3)
The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...
I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me: There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.
Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 439 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).