blockade
IPA: bɫɑkˈeɪd
noun
- The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- (by extension) Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
- (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
- (biology, medicine) Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
- (chess) Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
verb
- (transitive) To create a blockade against.
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Examples of "blockade" in Sentences
- Easing the embargo is not a cease of the blockade.
- I corrected the end date of the war and the blockade.
- The blockade began the basis of the Roosevelt Corollary.
- The strategic goal of the union was to maintain the blockade.
- But the hardships of blockade duty in the Gulf were unabated.
- A blockade must be applied impartially to the vessels of all States.
- They are searching for blockade runners in the Gulf and the Caribbean.
- The site of the blockade is commemorated by the Liberty Rock monument.
- Tattnall was handicapped in bringing this to fruition because of the blockade.
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