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Blockade   /blˌɑkˈeɪd/   Listen
Blockade

noun
1.
A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.  Synonym: encirclement.
2.
Prevents access or progress.
verb
(past & past part. blockaded; pres. part. blockading)
1.
Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of.  Synonyms: block, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy.
2.
Render unsuitable for passage.  Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, stop.  "Barricade the streets" , "Stop the busy road"
3.
Obstruct access to.  Synonym: block off.
4.
Impose a blockade on.  Synonym: seal off.



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"Blockade" Quotes from Famous Books



... John. That monarch, however, having succeeded by extraordinary efforts in assembling a competent force, was proceeding with his usual alacrity in the reduction of such places in the eastern quarter of Catalonia as had revolted to the enemy, while at the same time he instituted a rigorous blockade of Barcelona by sea and land. The fortifications were strong, and the king was unwilling to expose so fair a city to the devastating horrors of a storm. The inhabitants made one vigorous effort in a sally against the royal forces; but the civic militia were soon broken, and ...
— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott
... believed that Paris, defended by uncompleted fortifications, could withstand a direct attack from the Prussians; no one dreamed of a blockade, for it was thought that it would take a million and a quarter of men to invest the city, and the Prussians were known not to have that number for the purpose. The idea was that the enemy would ...
— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer
... care could do to insure success was left to chance or to favor. Porter might perhaps have quitted the Pacific in December, 1813, and, reaching the United States coast in the winter, have escaped the blockade which at that season was necessarily relaxed. By doing so he might have saved his ship; but the United States Navy would have lost one of the most brilliant pages in its history, and its future admiral one of the most glorious episodes in his own ...
— Admiral Farragut • A. T. Mahan
... the constant blockade we kept up along their territory with our boats and cruisers, from Cape Guardafui down to the Equator, thus putting a stop to their slave-dealings, capturing as we did all their dhows and blocking all outlets from the coast, ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... and as independent of our control as are the phases of the moon, may easily have the effect of letting loose upon thousands of humble families and households all the horrors of a state of siege or a warlike blockade. Then there are strikes and trade disputes of all kinds which affect vast numbers of people altogether unconcerned in the quarrel. Now, I am not going to-night to proclaim the principle of the "right to work." There is not much use in proclaiming a right apart from its enforcement; and when it ...
— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill


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