Siege is valid Scrabble Word

Is siege a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
7 points in WWF

Definitions for SIEGE in dictionary:

VERB:

NOUN:

the act or process of surrounding a town or fortress
a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling those inside to surrender
an operation in which a police or other force surround a building and cut off supplies, with the aim of forcing an armed person to surrender
a group of herons
surrounding and blockading of a place
A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
Hence, place or situation; seat.

Rank; grade; station; estimation.
Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy\'s fire. See the Note under Blockade.
Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
The floor of a glass-furnace.
A workman\'s bench.
the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to attempt to capture or gain

Words related to SIEGE

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Words that contain SIEGE

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How to use SIEGE in a sentence

Requesens took advantage of their temporary calm, and despatched them promptly to take part in the siege of Leyden.
Had I conquered Syria I should have done this, and the fate of the world was really decided at the siege of Acre.
By this time the fleet had come round, and the sailors were soon hard at work assisting to unload the transports and get the stores and siege materials on shore.
The city suffered siege on two other notable occasions.
On the 20th of May, 1430, the Duke of Burgundy came and laid siege to Compiegne.
In 1745 he was made Rear-Admiral for his services at the siege of Louisbourg.
With the winter came negotiations, during which an armistice reigned at Adrianople and Scutari, while the Greeks pursued the siege of Yannina and the Dardanelles blockade.
The siege of a fortified place by cavalry is ridiculous, if we understand by siege anything more than a very incomplete blockade.
Lerida in 1810 sustained a siege of thirty days, two weeks being of open trench.
This was, he thought, the single instance that he recollected, though he believed that something of the sort had occurred at the siege of Havana, in 1763.

I think the best story of the siege comes from a Kaffir who walked in a few days ago.
Probably the Dutch will not abandon the siege without a big fight.
In 1745 Warren played a part in the Siege of Louisbourg that won him promotion to the rank of Rear Admiral of the Blue, and his knighthood.
Warenne laid siege to Dunbar, but on the third day, April 27, the main Scots army came to its relief.
Leaving some of the young nobles to continue the siege, Warenne drew up his army in battle array.
The siege lasted for nine days, when the Indians, despairing of overcoming a resistance so desperate, retired.
They left Mardan at six in the evening of May 13th, and joined the British force at the siege of Delhi early on June 9th.
The labors of the siege have conducted us under your walls.
An inland city cannot long sustain a siege when there is no hope of aid.
I saw their commanders had not even known enough of the art of war to understand how the French were conducting the siege.
Concerning the English in this wonderful adventure of the siege, I have never comprehended, nor do I now know, wherefore they bore them as they did.
For three months, she lived in a state of siege, completely isolated, with the guards surrounding her house.
He was killed at the siege of Gibraltar, on the 27th of February 1782.
Ramon Berenguer, lord of Barcelona, had laid siege to Valencia, an important city on the Mediterranean coast.
THE SIEGE OF ORLEANS FROM THE 12TH OF OCTOBER, 1428, TO THE 6TH OF MARCH, 1429 106 VI.
She fears no forced contributions, no siege or sacking from military leaders of rival factions.
In the spring of 1779, he went into actual service, and was probably at the siege of Savannah.
Thus ended this famous siege, the longest, and one of the most memorable, recorded in history.
As soon as they entered that country, Philip laid siege to Mallaea, in the territory of Perrhaebia, and Baebius, to Phacium.
Thus began the first siege of Rome in the early days of March 537.
They had dug trenches and were laying siege to one of the city barracks.
Battle after battle, siege after siege ensued, in nearly all of which the Poles were successful.
The siege and capture of Sebastopol virtually ended the contest, though the war lagged during the greater part of the ensuing year.

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