Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Siege

Clearance

The most appropriate antonym of the word siege is clearance.

• Siege means "the action of surrounding a fortified place and isolating it while continuing to attack."
• Clearance means "the removal of obstacles or restrictions."

The other words do not have the same meaning as siege, so they are not its antonyms.

• Deference means "respectful submission or yielding."
• Trance means "a state of deep, dreamlike, or semiconscious abstraction."
• Inference means "the process of deriving logical conclusions from premises."