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siege

verb as in beleaguer

verb as in hedge

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Dating apps are using images from the siege to ban rioters’ accountsThe IPO is expected in February, Bloomberg has reported.

He is also the youngest founder and the one whose company is the most under siege.

The siege of the Capitol came close to being far worse, and there are indications that some rioters intended to harm lawmakers.

Some lawmakers are now taken aback by how Irving managed the siege.

Once shepherded to the secure location, Pence remained there throughout the entire siege, even as most key congressional leaders were evacuated to an off-site secure location, according to administration and congressional aides.

And even as the bloody siege continues, so, too, do signs of life.

It has long been a battle cry in conservative circles that Christmas is under siege.

The Kurds claimed at least 100 Islamic militants were killed in the two-day battle to lift the siege.

As a cafe in Sydney, Australia came under siege by a hostage-taking gunman on Monday, those nearby attempted to flee the area.

Purely by chance, Anna Coren had landed in Sydney just as the chocolate shop siege began.

After an eight weeks' siege, a breach having been made, the city surrendered, and a month later the fort followed the example.

This is a conquered city, virtually if not nominally in a state of siege, without assignable period.

During the siege of Acre he commanded the covering force, and pushed reconnaissances far and wide.

To pull through such a siege, the old settlers usually did much better than the new.

As the siege progressed besiegers and besieged actually came to know each other by sight.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to siege, such as: barricade, closure, encirclement, restriction, roadblock, and stoppage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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