siège

(Askeri) MUHASARA MUHAREBESİ: Taarruz eden bir kuvvetin, kuvvetli bir şekilde hazırlanmış bir mevkii veya mevzii, kısmen veya tamamen kuşatarak, bombardıman ve sistemli kısa kısa ilerlemelerle yaptığı yıpratıcı muharebe şekli

siege warfare

(Askeri) kuşatma muharebesi

siege warfare

(Askeri) muhasara muharebesi

Kale kuşatma altındadır. - The castle is under siege.

Şehir kuşatma altında. - The city is under siege.

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف siège في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
siege: military action
US A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.
siege: To assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege
siege: seat
Another ground were certain holes or cavities observable about the siege; which being perceived in males, made some conceive there might be also a feminine nature in them.
siege: a beleaguerment
siege: {n} the beseiging of any place, a seat, a stool
siege: prolonged period of trouble or annoyance, as in: Our family has had a siege of bad colds this year
siege: A siege is a military or police operation in which soldiers or police surround a place in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place. We must do everything possible to lift the siege The journalists found a city virtually under siege. see also state of siege
siege: A workman's bench
siege: {i} blockade, act of surrounding and attacking a fortification in order to cut off supply and aid routes; prolonged period of difficulty or trouble
siege: If police, soldiers, or journalists lay siege to a place, they surround it in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place. The rebels laid siege to the governor's residence. Leningrad Siege of Mafikeng Siege of Toulon Siege of Vienna Siege of Yorktown Siege of Zara Siege of
siege: A long-term military attack against a fortified place where earthworks and artillery figured prominently
siege: This is an ancient battle strategy In ancient times many cities had walls surrounding them for protection In this strategy, an attacking army simply surrounded the city and waited Eventually, the city would run out of food and water and they would either die of starvation or surrender See War Strategy
siege: The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire
siege: Hence, place or situation; seat
siege: the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
siege: an attack upon a fortified place Most sieges are nothing more than a waiting game, blocking off supplies to the enemy, until they are too hungry or weak and give up
siege: Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession
siege: A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne
siege: You are under siege when you blockade a civilian population and bombard them with anti-tank missiles
siege: Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter
siege: {f} blockade, besiege, surround and attack a fortification in order to cut off supply and aid routes
siege: See the Note under Blockade
siege: To surround and cut off supplies to an army or town until they surrender
siege: The floor of a glass-furnace
siege: To besiege; to beset
siege: Rank; grade; station; estimation
siege engine: A large weapon of war used, during medieval times, to batter fortifications
siege warfare: Warfare in which the defender is trapped in a position (such as a fort or castle) while the attacker bombards and/or barricades them from outside
siege weapon: A weapon (usually very large) used by the aggressor in siege warfare. Examples include trebuchets, catapults, cannon, etc
siege weapons: plural form of siege weapon
Siege Perilous: In Arthurian legend, a seat at King Arthur's Round Table kept for the knight destined to find the Holy Grail and fatal for any other occupant
Siege of Leningrad: (Sept. 8, 1941-Jan. 27, 1944) Prolonged siege of the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) by German forces in World War II. German forces invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and approached Leningrad from the west and south while Germany's Finnish allies came from the north. By November 1941 the city was almost completely encircled and its supply lines to the Soviet interior cut off. In 1942 alone, in excess of 650,000 of Leningrad's citizens died from starvation, disease, and shelling from distant German artillery. Sparse food and fuel supplies reached the city by barge in the summer and by sled in winter across Lake Ladoga. The supplies kept the city's arms factories operating and its two million inhabitants barely alive, while another one million children and sick and elderly people were evacuated. Soviet offensives in 1943 partially broke the German encirclement and were followed in January 1944 by a successful Soviet attack that drove the Germans westward from the city's outskirts, ending the siege
Siege of Mafikeng: Boer siege of a British military outpost in the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (until 1980 spelled Mafeking) in northwestern South Africa in 1899-1900. The garrison, under the command of Col. Robert S. Baden-Powell, held out against the larger Boer force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced the word mafficking, meaning wild rejoicing
Siege of Toulon: (Aug. 28-Dec. 19, 1793) Military engagement in the French Revolutionary Wars. French royalists handed over the naval base and arsenal at Toulon, France, to an Anglo-Spanish fleet in August. The French Revolutionary army began a siege to recapture the port city and, after months of preparations, successfully assaulted the allied-held forts commanding the anchorage. A battery of French guns, commanded by the young Napoleon Bonaparte, fired on the British fleet and forced it to evacuate the inner harbour, though British and Spanish troops blew up the arsenal and burned 42 French ships before leaving. For his key role in the victory, Napoleon was promoted to brigadier general
Siege of Vienna: v. (July 17-Sept. 12, 1683) Attempted capture of Vienna by Ottoman Turkey. On appeal from the Hungarian Calvinists to attack the Habsburg capital, the Turkish grand vizier, Kara Mustafa (1634-83), and his army of 150,000 laid siege to Vienna in July 1683, after capturing its outer fortifications. Pope Innocent XI convinced John III Sobieski of Poland to lead a combined army of 80,000 to relieve the siege. On Sept. 12, 1683, Sobieski, aided by Charles of Lorraine, led the attack from the surrounding hills and after 15 hours drove the Turks from their trenches around the city. Thousands were slaughtered or taken prisoner. The event marked the beginning of the decline of Turkish domination in eastern Europe
Siege of Yorktown: The siege ended fighting in the war and virtually guaranteed success to the American cause
Siege of Yorktown: (1781) American-French land and sea campaign against the British that virtually ended the American Revolution. About 7,500 British troops under Charles Cornwallis occupied defensive positions at the coastal port of Yorktown, Va., on Aug. 1, 1781. They were opposed by a smaller American force under the marquis de Lafayette, assisted by Anthony Wayne and Frederick Steuben. From New York, George Washington ordered Lafayette to prevent Cornwallis's escape by land. French troops under the count de Rochambeau joined Washington's forces and marched south. Linking up with a French fleet at the head of Chesapeake Bay, they joined Lafayette's forces on September 28, and the 14,000 troops besieged the British position. Cornwallis waited for British reinforcements under Henry Clinton to arrive by sea; but now outnumbered, outgunned, and running low on food, he surrendered his 8,000 men and 240 guns on October
Siege of Zara: (1202) Major episode of the Fourth Crusade, the first attack on a Christian city by a Crusading army. Zara (modern Zadar, Cro.), a vassal city of Venice, had rebelled and placed itself under Hungary's protection in 1186. Over the objections of Pope Innocent III, the Venetians diverted the Fourth Crusade from Palestine and Egypt, using financial pressure to persuade the Crusaders to besiege Zara. The city soon surrendered, and the army went on to attack Constantinople in 1203-04
siege mentality: If a group of people have a siege mentality, they think that other people are constantly trying to harm or defeat them, and so they care only about protecting themselves. Police officers had a siege mentality that isolated them from the people they served
siege perilous: the legendary seat at King Arthur's Round Table reserved for the knight who would find the Holy Grail; it was fatal for anyone else to sit in it
siege-wall: protective wall, fortress, series of towers alongside a wall
laid siege: Simple past of lay siege
lain siege: Past participle of lay siege
lay siege: To besiege, to engage in a siege
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
lay siege: To attack continually over a long period
They're laying siege to all we hold dear.
laying siege: Present participle of lay siege
lays siege: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lay siege
A siege: assiege
lay siege to: blockade, isolate, take control of
raise a siege: end a blockade, end a siege
sieged: past of siege
sieges: plural of siege
sieging: present participle of siege
state of siege: A state of siege is a situation in which a government or other authority puts restrictions on the movement of people into or out of a country, town, or building. Under the state of siege, the police could arrest suspects without charges or warrants