lay siege to

To surround and attack a place (often a city or building) with armed troops. A: "The army has laid siege to our town!" B: "I knew we should have evacuated sooner!"

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Waldedrudis	-	Ancient Germanic
Elsie	EL-see	English
Armitt	['a:mit]
Yaffa	-	Hebrew
Fri&Eth;Uswi&Thorn;	-	Anglo-Saxon
Hasan	-	Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Indonesian