siege

in Vietnamese Tổ chức bao vây, phong tỏa

BrE /siːdʒ/ AmE /siːdʒ/

noun en → vi

1 MILITARY ATTACK [singular] B2

Tổ chức bao vây, phong tỏa

a military attack in which an army surrounds a place and tries to capture it by stopping people from getting in or out

  • a siege of somewhere

Collocations siege of a city · lift the siege

  • The army laid siege to the castle for months.

    Quân đội đã bao vây lâu đài trong nhiều tháng.

2 STRESSFUL SITUATION [singular] C1

Tình trạng bị bao vây, mắc kẹt trong vấn đề khó khăn

a situation in which someone is trapped or surrounded by a difficult problem and cannot escape from it

  • a siege of something

Collocations siege of illness · break the siege

  • He was in a siege of depression.

    Anh ấy bị mắc kẹt trong tình trạng trầm cảm.