seige, blockade, bombardment, standoff, lockdown, onslaught, rampage, raid, crackdown, manhunt, occupation, encirclement, massacre, naval blockade, gunfight, bloodbath, hostilities, uprising, curfew, clampdown, bloodshed, embargo, stranglehold, firefight, cordon, truce, carnage, ordeal, attack, cosh, insurrection, intifadah, clashes, gag order, shelling, moratorium, rioting, pogrom, siege mentality, ceasefire, groznyy, hostage, assault, fortress, vigil, battle, bombing, fighting, reign, struggle, pressure, counteroffensive, mutiny, duress, stalemate, excommunications, shellfire, noose, marooning, besiegers, war, hunger strike, lawlessness, hoodoo, blackout, bandh, quarantine, civilians, chokehold, arrest, militants, third crusade, citadel, silence, encamping, dragnet, hindenburg line, shootout, gunfire, idf, iron curtain, revolt, warfare, allayer, bloodletting, rebellion, barrage, torment, commandos, restrictions, confrontation, fortifications, terrorization, repression, cordon sanitaire, depredations, incursion, barricades, holocaust, shutdown, ransacking, babylonian captivity, sieges, sortie, captivity, voyage, sojourn, batde, expedition, bout, chase, trial, duel, strike, contest, encounter, fight, journey, enemy, antitank, battering, dealing, dismantled, aircraft, flak, tank, armoured, calibre, confederate, dummy, heavier, highspeed, lighter, millimeter, pounder, rebel, rifled, toy

alamo, atlanta, bataan, battle of atlanta, corregidor, dien bien phu, lucknow, orleans, pleven, plevna, siege of orleans, siege of syracuse, siege of vicksburg, syracuse, vicksburg, yorktown

., achilles, besieger, calais, crockett, david crockett, davy crockett, dien bien phu, iliad, odysseus, orleans, pleven, plevna, raise, ration, siege of orleans, siege of syracuse, syracuse, yorktown

blockade, encirclement

beleaguering, besieging, military blockade