SIEGES Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

sieges

noun

plural of siege

as in bouts

a sudden experiencing of a physical or mental disorder a devastating siege of typhoid fever hit the city

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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

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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

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The Vegas residency was originally scheduled to begin last February but was repeatedly postponed as the singer battled the cancer and previous bouts of bronchitis.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2026
But the majority of the country’s stormwater infrastructure was not built for heavier bouts of rain brought by a warming climate — and now experts are warning the ongoing super El Niño will further expose those risks across the nation.

— Erin Douglas, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026

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Now in its fourth week, the nationwide movement to highlight teacher shortages, classroom overcrowding and the dilapidation of facilities has involved marches, blockades of hundreds of schools and, in some cases, clashes with police.

— Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026
From there, class strikes, blockades and demonstrations spread to other Paris suburbs and then nationwide, even in smaller towns.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

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Operation Blackout is the FBI’s global campaign to identify and dismantle foreign scam compounds through overseas raids, asset seizures and the disruption of web domains and infrastructure linked to scam networks.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
In the decade of violent conflicts that followed, attacks on border towns and seizures of American property by revolutionaries and bandits prompted the United States to send two military expeditions into Mexico.

— Robert B. Zoellick, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of seizures

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Unusually, adult children can (in rare cases) be liable to pay for parents’ care if the parents run out of money.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 11 Oct. 2026
Uganda had temporarily restricted non-essential travel across its border with the DRC after most of its cases were imported from the country.

— Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026

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The insulation of the mulch will help keep the bulbs dormant during those treacherous warm spells in late winter and early spring.

— Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
And while some fall heat spells have been worse, the once that’s expected to begin this week won’t be easy to ignore.

— Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2026

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