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01119169-v:
launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
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01126846-v:
impose a blockade on
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01127638-v:
hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
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09850974-n:
an enemy who lays siege to your position
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00449525-a:
surrounding and closing in on or hemming in
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01075117-n:
the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
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the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged
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a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
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the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945
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the British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857)
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the final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee
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a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered
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a city in northern India in Uttar Pradesh; during the Indian Mutiny its British residents were besieged by Indian insurgents
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