Siege

Definition

siege /si:dʒ/ n (က) ၿမိဳ႕၊ ခံတပ္ စသည္ကို စစ္သည္ဗိုလ္ပါျဖင့္ ဝန္းရံလုပ္ႀကံျခင္း။ the siege of Troy ❍ be in a state of siege ❍ The city was under siege for eight months. ❍ raise/lift (ie end) a siege ❍ siege-guns. (ခ) (ရဲ စသည္က အေဆာက္ အအံု စသည္ကို) ဝိုင္းျခင္း။ The siege was finally brought to an end when the terrorists surrendered. ❏ lay siege to sth [ IDM ] ၁။ (ၿမိဳ႕၊ အေဆာက္အအံု စသည္ကို) ဝိုင္းထားသည္။ ၂။ (လူ)ဝိုင္းသည္၊ အံုသည္။ Crowds of journalists laid siege to the star's flat.

Examples

1. The troops prepared to withstand a long siege.
2. [break a siege] : An attempt was made to break the 38-month siege of Sarajevo.
3. [lift/raise a siege] : The king lifted the siege two months later.
4. [under siege] : Malta was under siege in World War II.
5. Police surrounded the house for a 12 hour siege.
6. [state of siege] : The town was in a state of siege (=people could not leave or enter it).
7. [lay siege to something] : Hundreds of students laid siege to the American embassy.