Collocations withsiege
These are words often used in combination withsiege.
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long siege
The railways board is ready for what it would term a long siege.
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Hansard archive
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prolonged siege
Some of the complaints, in regard for example to food and clothing, related to deficiencies which were the result of the prolonged siege and were in process of being remedied.
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Hansard archive
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siege tower
They also brought a siege tower to try to gain the higher ground.
From
Wikipedia
siege warfare
We must get away from the siege warfare of the past few months.
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Hansard archive
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state of siege
The state of siege was lifted and all the laws restored.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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