There is no way out of the siege except to take the bull by the horns and let God judge the outcome.
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Siege
//siːd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "siege" (70 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriesderived
13 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
Translations
92 translations across 64 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- beleg noun (military blockade of settlement)
- beleëring noun (military blockade of settlement)
Albanian
1 entries- rrethim noun (military blockade of settlement)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πολιορκία noun (military blockade of settlement)
Arabic
2 entries- حِصَار noun (military blockade of settlement)
- مُحَاصَرَة noun (military blockade of settlement)
Armenian
1 entries- պաշարում noun (military blockade of settlement)
Asturian
1 entries- asediu noun (military blockade of settlement)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- mühasirə noun (military blockade of settlement)
Basque
1 entries- setio noun (military blockade of settlement)
Belarusian
2 entries- абло́га noun (military blockade of settlement)
- блака́да noun (military blockade of settlement)
Breton
1 entries- seziz noun (military blockade of settlement)
Bulgarian
1 entries- обса́да noun (military blockade of settlement)
Catalan
1 entries- setge noun (military blockade of settlement)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 包圍戰 /包围战 noun (military blockade of settlement)
- 圍困 /围困 noun (military blockade of settlement)
- 圍城 /围城 noun (military blockade of settlement)
- 攻城戰 /攻城战 noun (military blockade of settlement)
Czech
1 entries- obležení noun (military blockade of settlement)
Danish
1 entries- belejring noun (military blockade of settlement)
Dutch
2 entries- beleg noun (military blockade of settlement)
- belegering noun (military blockade of settlement)
Esperanto
1 entries- sieĝo noun (military blockade of settlement)
Estonian
1 entries- piiramine noun (military blockade of settlement)
Finnish
1 entries- piiritys noun (military blockade of settlement)
French
1 entries- siège noun (military blockade of settlement)
Galician
3 entries- asedio noun (military blockade of settlement)
- cerco noun (military blockade of settlement)
- sitio noun (military blockade of settlement)
Georgian
2 entries- ალყა noun (military blockade of settlement)
- ბლოკადა noun (military blockade of settlement)
German
1 entries- Belagerung noun (military blockade of settlement)
Greek
1 entries- πολιορκία noun (military blockade of settlement)
Hebrew
1 entries- מָצוֹר noun (military blockade of settlement)
Hindi
2 entries- घेरा noun (military blockade of settlement)
- घेराबंदी noun (military blockade of settlement)
Hungarian
1 entries- ostrom noun (military blockade of settlement)
Icelandic
2 entries- herkví noun (military blockade of settlement)
- umsátur noun (military blockade of settlement)
Ido
1 entries- siejo noun (military blockade of settlement)
Indonesian
1 entries- pengepungan noun (military blockade of settlement)
Irish
1 entries- léigear noun (military blockade of settlement)
Italian
1 entries- assedio noun (military blockade of settlement)
Japanese
2 entries- 包囲 noun (military blockade of settlement)
- 攻城戦 noun (military blockade of settlement)
Kazakh
3 entries- қамалау noun (military blockade of settlement)
- қамау noun (military blockade of settlement)
- қоршау noun (military blockade of settlement)
Khmer
1 entries- ការឡោមព័ទ្ធ noun (military blockade of settlement)
Korean
2 entries- 공성전 noun (military blockade of settlement)
- 포위 noun (military blockade of settlement)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- камоо noun (military blockade of settlement)
- курчоо noun (military blockade of settlement)
Latin
2 entries- obsessiō noun (military blockade of settlement)
- obsidiō noun (military blockade of settlement)
Latvian
1 entries- aplenkums noun (military blockade of settlement)
Lithuanian
1 entries- apgula noun (military blockade of settlement)
Macedonian
1 entries- опсада noun (military blockade of settlement)
Malay
1 entries- pengepungan noun (military blockade of settlement)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- beleiring noun (military blockade of settlement)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- omleiring noun (military blockade of settlement)
Pashto
1 entries- محاصره noun (military blockade of settlement)
Persian
1 entries- محاصره noun (military blockade of settlement)
Polish
1 entries- oblężenie noun (military blockade of settlement)
Portuguese
3 entries- assédio noun (military blockade of settlement)
- cerco noun (military blockade of settlement)
- sítio noun (military blockade of settlement)
Romanian
1 entries- asediu noun (military blockade of settlement)
Russian
2 entries- блока́да noun (military blockade of settlement)
- оса́да noun (military blockade of settlement)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sèist noun (military blockade of settlement)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ȍpsada noun (military blockade of settlement)
- о̏псада noun (military blockade of settlement)
Slovak
1 entries- obliehanie noun (military blockade of settlement)
Slovene
1 entries- obleganje noun (military blockade of settlement)
Spanish
2 entries- asedio noun (military blockade of settlement)
- sitio noun (military blockade of settlement)
Swedish
1 entries- belägring noun (military blockade of settlement)
Tajik
2 entries- муҳосара noun (military blockade of settlement)
- муҳосира noun (military blockade of settlement)
Thai
1 entries- การล้อม noun (military blockade of settlement)
Turkish
2 entries- kuşatma noun (military blockade of settlement)
- muhasara noun (military blockade of settlement)
Ukrainian
2 entries- блока́да noun (military blockade of settlement)
- обло́га noun (military blockade of settlement)
Urdu
2 entries- محاصرہ noun (military blockade of settlement)
- گھِیرا noun (military blockade of settlement)
Uzbek
1 entries- muhosara noun (military blockade of settlement)
Vietnamese
2 entries- sự bao vây noun (military blockade of settlement)
- sự phong tỏa noun (military blockade of settlement)
Welsh
1 entries- gwarchae noun (military blockade of settlement)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
A trebuchet is a siege weapon similar to a catapult.
Source: tatoeba (735370)
The Turks held siege over the Castle of Eger for a long time.
Source: tatoeba (2152730)
Verdun had withstood a siege of ten weeks.
Source: tatoeba (2413580)
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