sieged
Cut off, attacked
Sieged is a past tense or participial form of siege used as a verb, meaning to subject to a siege—surrounding and blockading a place to force surrender: The army sieged the castle for months.
This usage is informal or nonstandard; traditional usage prefers "laid siege to" or "besieged." Sieged appears frequently in gaming contexts where siege operates as an action verb.
Capacity to withstand force
- holdoutOne refusing to participate
- defendersThose who shield others
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
starvation · desperation · relief · surrender · capitulation · prolonged · beleaguered · exhaustion
Urged with insistence
- overwhelmedDefeated by sheer volume
- beleagueredPersistently harassed or troubled
- besetTroubled on all sides
- bombardedAttacked with heavy fire
inundated · harassed · hounded · stressed · swamped · assailed · plagued · barraged
Heavily defended military structure
- citadelFortified urban stronghold
- strongholdFortified place of defense
- castleFortified medieval residence
- bastionFortified defensive position
garrison · ramparts · battlements · walls · parapet · redoubt · palisade · bunker
Attacking with force
- breachBreaking of agreement
- catapultSiege engine for launching
- escaladeSiege by ladders
- onslaughtFierce, overwhelming assault
charge · barrage · volley · sappers · miners · bombardment · ram · trebuchet
Surrounding enemy forces completely
- surroundedBounded on all sides
- embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
- isolationComplete separation from others
- cordonEncircling line restricting access
containment · starved · interdiction · quarantine · hemmed · enveloped · trapped · ringed
resistance
Capacity to withstand force
- holdoutOne refusing to participate
- defendersThose who shield others
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
rationing · starvation · desperation · relief · surrender · capitulation · prolonged · beleaguered · exhaustion · morale
pressured
Urged with insistence
- overwhelmedDefeated by sheer volume
- beleagueredPersistently harassed or troubled
- besetTroubled on all sides
bombarded · inundated · harassed · hounded · stressed · swamped · assailed · plagued · barraged · cornered
fortress
Heavily defended military structure
- citadelFortified urban stronghold
- strongholdFortified place of defense
- castleFortified medieval residence
bastion · garrison · ramparts · battlements · walls · parapet · redoubt · palisade · bunker · entrenchment
storming
Attacking with force
onslaught · charge · barrage · volley · sappers · miners · bombardment · ram · trebuchet · incursion
encirclement
Surrounding enemy forces completely
- surroundedBounded on all sides
- embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
- isolationComplete separation from others
cordon · containment · starved · interdiction · quarantine · hemmed · enveloped · trapped · ringed · sealed
siegedrelieved
No longer anxious
liberated · resupplied · reinforced · evacuated · abandoned
- lay siegeSurround to force surrender
- laying siegeSurrounding to force surrender
- siege enginesWeapons for attacking fortifications
- siege weaponDevice for attacking fortifications
- state of siegeEmergency military government control
- laid siegeSurrounded to force surrender
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