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View definitions for sieging

sieging

verb as in beleaguer

verb as in hedge

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The Secret Service declined to comment on any element of Pence’s movements in the Capitol or his evacuation, other than to say that he was “secure” during the siege.

It’s hard to think about cars at a time when our health, our city, and our country is under siege.

Instead, in a statement, he denounced the violence that unfolded during the hours-long siege, which included the fatal injuring of a Capitol Police officer and the death of a woman shot by police after she breached the complex.

Smith, 40, was distributing hand-warmers to homeless people nearby when the siege started.

The lockdown room was a safe space for lawmakers under siege.

As it is, the Austrian Army is not annihilated; only bottled into Prag, and will need sieging.

Italy, all but some sieging of strong-places, may be considered as lost for the present.

Well for them, that Insurrection has only pikes and axes; no right sieging tools!

What could such tender creatures have done at such a place as the sieging of Charlestown?

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sieging, such as: annoy, bedevil, beset, plague, badger, and blockade.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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