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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



... to Germany by the coffee trade before the war. German capital was heavily invested in coffee plantations; German houses had branches in the principal cities; and German ships regularly served the chief ports. Accordingly, when the blockade became effective, these countries were placed in a difficult position. But fortunately for them, a special effort had been made shortly before by Pacific-coast interests in the United States to divert a part of the coffee trade to San Francisco[313] The market to the east being shut off, these ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... her pride. Her moral force is only the confidence which her material force inspires in her. And this means that in this respect she is living on reserves without means of replenishment. Even before England had commenced to blockade her coasts she had blockaded herself morally, in isolating herself from every ideal capable of giving her ...
— The Meaning of the War - Life & Matter in Conflict • Henri Bergson
... whole generations of Woodwards. Jake Cohen, a pedlar, who with marevelous tact had fitted himself to the conditions of life and society in the moutains, and who was supposed to have some sort of connection with the traffice in "blockade" whisky, gravely inquired of Squire Pleasants if the new-comer had left any message ...
— Mingo - And Other Sketches in Black and White • Joel Chandler Harris
... convention. She found herself isolated and unsupported, and left to oppose her own proper forces and means of defence, to an army of sixty thousand men, and to the numerous Jacobins contained within her own walls. About the end of July, after a lapse of an interval of two months, a regular blockade was formed around the city, and in the first week of August, hostilities took place. The besieging army was directed in its military character by general Kellerman, who, with other distinguished soldiers, had now began to hold an eminent rank in the republican armies. But for ...
— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox
... Federal officers crossed the enemy's lines with him, where he was met by one private soldier, and after some hours taken into the presence of the commander. General Bragg received him very kindly at Shelbyville, and allowed him to report on parole at Wilmington, North Carolina. There he took a blockade runner for Nassau, where he found a ...
— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells


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