A period of sickness or trouble.
1862. We had a siege of it.—Atlantic Monthly, ix. 558/2 (May).
1902. For a while they have a siege of discontent, wondering where it’s all gone.—W. N. Harben, ‘Abner Daniel,’ pp. 57–8.
1908. She was as pale and peaked as if she had been through a siege of typhoid.—Eliza C. Hall, ‘Aunt Jane of Kentucky,’ p. 9.
