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UK
/blɒkˈeɪd/
]
[ US /ˌbɫɑˈkeɪd/ ]
[ US /ˌbɫɑˈkeɪd/ ]
VERB
- obstruct access to
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render unsuitable for passage
block the way
barricade the streets
stop the busy road - impose a blockade on
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hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
His brother blocked him at every turn
NOUN
- a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
- prevents access or progress
How To Use blockade In A Sentence
- ‘We can forcibly remove the blockades if we are sure that there is enough evidence that the blockaders are illegal,’ he told the Post.
- Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
- The river blockaded the spread of the forest fire.
- The Danish government gave the Association permission to purchase food from Danish sources and to import foodstuffs from neutral countries for reshipment to needy prisoners of war (this permission was highly unusual given the tight blockade that the Allies imposed on Denmark to prevent the trans-shipment of food to Germany). Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
- DUSHANBE -- More than 20 journalists protested today outside the Uzbek Embassy in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, to demand an end to what they call Uzbekistan's ongoing economic blockade of Tajikistan, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. Spero News
- Commenting on the blockade, the SA Chamber of Business in a statement expressed its "grave concern" at what it called the broader economic and business consequences of the action. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Three main types of lumbar sympathetic nerve blockades for pain include the paravertebral approach and spinal and epidural injections of local anesthetics.
- They blockaded the Suez Canal in violation of international agreement.
- The courts, however, decided that a port so little guarded as Wilmington was at that time could not be legally called blockaded, and the brig was therefore released. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
- They imposed an economic blockade on the city, forcing people to queue for hours in the heat to enter or leave, and requiring them to show identification in English.