lay+siege+to
21lay — I [[t]le͟ɪ[/t]] VERB AND NOUN USES ♦♦ lays, laying, laid (In standard English, the form lay is also the past tense of the verb in some meanings. In informal English, people sometimes use the word lay instead of …
22siege — n. 1) to conduct a siege of; to lay siege to 2) to lift, raise a siege 3) a state of siege (in a state of siege) 4) at, during a siege (he was killed at the siege of Leningrad) 5) under siege (a city under siege) * * * [siːdʒ] raise a siege to… …
23siege — UK [siːdʒ] / US [sɪdʒ] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms siege : singular siege plural sieges 1) an attack in which an army surrounds a castle or city in order to prevent the people inside from receiving food and water The troops prepared… …
24siege — noun (C, U) 1 a military operation during which an army surrounds a place and tries to gain control of it by stopping supplies of food, weapons etc from reaching it: The siege lasted almost four months. | lay siege to (=start a siege): In June… …
25lay — lay1 [ leı ] (past tense and past participle laid [ leıd ] ) verb *** ▸ 1 put down flat/carefully ▸ 2 push egg from body ▸ 3 plan and prepare ▸ 4 lie ▸ 5 prepare table for meal ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) transitive lay on/in/across/against to put something …
26lay — I UK [leɪ] / US verb Word forms lay : present tense I/you/we/they lay he/she/it lays present participle laying past tense laid UK [leɪd] / US past participle laid *** Collocations: Lay means to put something in a particular place or position: I… …
27lay — I. /leɪ / (say lay) verb (laid, laying) –verb (t) 1. to put or place in a position of rest or recumbency: to lay a book on a desk. 2. to bring, throw, or beat down, as from an erect position: to lay a person low. 3. to cause to subside: to lay… …
28siege — /sidʒ / (say seej) noun 1. the operation of reducing and capturing a fortified place by surrounding it, cutting off supplies, undermining, bringing guns to bear, bombing, and other offensive operations. 2. the operation of surrounding a location… …
29Siege engine — Replica battering ram at Château des Baux, France. A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare. Some have been operated close to the fortifications, while others have… …
30Siege of Jerusalem, The — (ca. 1370–1390) The Siege of Jerusalem is a long (1,334 lines) ALLITERATIVE VERSE poem in MIDDLE ENGLISH, probably composed in the last decades of the 14th century in far west Yorkshire. This production of the socalled ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL… …
