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A siege is a military or police operation when an area is surrounded to get people to surrender or a siege is a long period of bad luck or misfortune. (noun)

An example of a siege is when the police surround a building occupied with armed robbers and try to get the robbers to surrender.
An example of a siege is a long string of illnesses.

See siege in Webster's New World College Dictionary