ἐκπολιορκεῖν
From LSJ
Κύριε, σῶσον τὸν δοῦλον σου κτλ. → Lord, save your slave ... (mosaic inscription from 4th cent. church in the Negev)
Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also ἐκπολιορκέω): reduce by siege, starve out, take by siege
Lexicon Thucydideum
expugnare, to storm, take by assault, 1.94.2. 3.94.2, 4.8.8, 4.26.4. 5.32.1,
PASS. 1.117.3. 1.131.1 (de Pausania concerning Pausanias), 4.19.1. 7.14.3. 7.75.5.