Noun:

ਨਜ਼ਰਬੰਦੀ,

siege's Usage Examples:

Following the siege, a treaty of surrender was agreed upon, and the conditions were drawn up by Sir Andrew Kniveton, the Governor of Tutbury Castle – with the agreement being signed on 20 April 1646.

that the defenders of Edessa suspended a squealing pig from the walls to frighten away Khosrau"s single siege elephant in the sixth century AD.

Eventually a Granadan sympathiser in the garrison helped the besiegers to gain entrance.

But a one-year siege, starting in 1798 during the War of the Second Coalition, brought starvation to the defenders of Ehrenbreitstein who finally handed over the fortress to French troops in 1799.

The Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb, sent his general Jai Singh to besiege Shivaji"s fortress at Purandar.

However, in the 1470s it took the Aq Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turkomans) three successive sieges to capture Bitlis and in 1494/95 the Ruzaki recaptured the town.

Oribe sieged the city during 9 years; his headquarters were established at the present.

O'Reilly analyzed what had gone wrong with the defenses of Havana during the successful British siege.

A key border fortress, it was the site of a 10-day siege by the Duke of Wellington.

This shooting lead to the siege at Captain Jack's Stronghold.

When the Bulgarian ruler refused, Louis I marched from Hungary on 1 May 1365 and captured Vidin on 2 June after a brief siege.

involvement in the siege of Tobruk, but in June 1942 it was sent to Egypt and recommitted to the North Africa campaign.

Synonyms:

besieging, encirclement, military blockade, beleaguering, blockade,

Antonyms:

free,