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beleaguerment

n. The fact or state of beleaguering; a state of blockade or siege.

Usage examples of "beleaguerment".

The seven months' beleaguerment was ended, the thing which the first generals of France had called impossible was accomplished.

I know none such of the world's men unless they be yon trio of giants to whom Cuchulainn gave quarter at the beleaguerment of the Men of Falga, and when they were getting quarter they killed fifty warriors.

The house had grown very silent, as if the macabre and charnel army of beleaguerment had now retired to its various graves.