Synonyms of sieges

sieges

noun

plural of siege

1

as in bouts

a sudden experiencing of a physical or mental disorder

a devastating siege of typhoid fever hit the city

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bouts
• attacks
• seizures
• cases
• spells
• accesses
• pangs
• fits
• spasms
• relapses
• convulsions
• turns
• recurrences
• agitations
• breakdowns
• frenzies
• paroxysms
• throes
• collapses
• prostrations
• brainstorms
• eclampsias

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• arrests
• reliefs
• remissions

2

as in blockades

the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or supplies

after a siege of six weeks, the city of Vicksburg surrendered to General Grant and his Union forces

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blockades
• investments
• leaguers
• isolations
• sequestrations
• beleaguerments
• encirclements
• segregations
• internments
• insulations
• quarantines
• seclusions
• containments
• counterblockades
• confinements
• encompassments
• incarcerations

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sieges

These groups saw the sieges as proof that the federal government was hunting gun owners and religious dissenters. — Art Jipson, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026

Which is why many Americans have begun to tire of the sieges in their communities. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026

As in traditional sieges, the focus is on the vulnerable flow of supplies rather than a defended position. — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026

However, Birru said the sieges were not fully broken. — ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026

Now requests are arriving steadily from New York, Maine, and Milan, other locales bracing for their own sieges. — Kathryn Savage, Artforum, 10 Feb. 2026

Surovstev’s birthplace, present-day Mariupol, Ukraine, has endured some of the most devastating strikes and sieges from Russia during the war. — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025

Britain ultimately lost not only because of Washington’s extraordinary tenacity in the war’s several mainland theaters, but also because the king’s men had to stage long sieges, wage desperate naval battles, and take mounting casualties on too many other fronts spread too far apart. — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025

So in the worst sieges in Syria, people could smuggle themselves in and out. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025