transcription, транскрипция: [ si:dʒ ]
( sieges)
1.
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.
We must do everything possible to lift the siege...
The journalists found a city virtually under siege.
N-COUNT : also under N
see also state of siege
2.
If police, soldiers, or journalists lay siege to a place, they surround it in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place.
The rebels laid siege to the governor’s residence...
PHRASE : V inflects , usu PHR to n