Wiktionary
vb. 1 To besiege, to engage in a siege. 2 (context figuratively English) To attack continually over a long period.
Usage examples of "lay siege".
Four days ago, when they had ridden through a mountain village west of Camlee, the villagers told them that the empire's forces were about to lay siege to the city.
The Spaniards are on the point of marching to lay siege to Alkmaar, and I wish a message carried to the citizens, assuring them that they may rely absolutely upon my relieving them by breaking down the dykes.
Do you realizeif I want to see my father again, I'll have to come and lay siege to him?
There were basically four ways for the Holtish to lay siege to the castle.
Then the king and all his host made them ready to lay siege about Sir Launcelot, where he lay within Joyous Gard.
Irregulars lay siege to kibbutz Manara high in the hills on the Lebanese border.
But that Third Army seemed to be chasing him only leisurely, even detaching a sizable piece of itself to surround and lay siege to the Alsatian capital of Strasbourg.
If our troops arrive to lay siege and no one comes to lift it, the people will lose heart and open the city to us.
When riding through the narrow confines, Kerrigan had looked up and noticed that a small number of archers could harry any troops trying to lay siege to the entrance, and he was pretty sure this was a point not lost on the urZrethi.
Then we must get through the new wall around their encampment' - he touched the map, showing where the Tippoo had constructed a stout mud wall, well served with guns, that surrounded the encampment which lay outside the city's southern and eastern walls - 'and after that we have to lay siege to the city proper, and we know that both the east and south ramparts already have inner walls.
Then we must get through the new wall around their encampment'he touched the map, showing where the Tippoo had constructed a stout mud wall, well served with guns, that surrounded the encampment which lay outside the city's southern and eastern walls'and after that we have to lay siege to the city proper, and we know that both the east and south ramparts already have inner walls.
Instead, a substantial force paused to lay siege to it, chiefly at the instance of General Henry Knox, who in an uncharacteristic lapse of judgment rather book-ishly insisted upon the medieval military maxim that you must never leave a castle in your rear.
Rome retained sufficient strength to lay siege to Syracuse and, after more than two years of warfare, took and sacked it in 212 b.