Blockade

What do we mean by blockade?

The isolation of a nation, area, city, or harbor by hostile ships or forces in order to prevent the entrance and exit of traffic and commerce. noun

The forces used to effect this isolation. noun

To set up a blockade against. transitive verb

The shutting up of a place, particularly a port, harbor, or line of coast, by hostile ships or troops, so as to stop all ingress or egress, and to hinder the entrance of supplies of provisions, ammunition, or reinforcements. noun

Hence A hindrance to progress or action caused by obstructions of any kind. noun

To subject to a blockade; prevent ingress or egress from by warlike means.

Hence To shut in by obstacles of any kind; block; obstruct.

The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies. noun

An obstruction to passage. noun

Interference with transmission of a physiological signal, or a physiological reaction. noun

See under Raise. noun

To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under blockade, n. transitive verb

Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress. transitive verb

To obstruct entrance to or egress from. transitive verb

The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out. noun

By extension, any form of formal isolation of something, especially with the force of law or arms. noun

The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade. noun

Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it noun

To create a blockade against. verb

Obstruct access to verb

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 of something, especially with the force of law or arms.

The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.

Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it

Words that are spelled similarly to blockade:
blockade, blockage, brocade, stockade, cockade, blocked, blockaded, lockage, blockader, brockage, blockades, blocage, blockie.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word blockade:
dardanelles, runners, gaza, runner, brest, steamer, gunboat, confederacy, schooner, aground, confederate, css, sloop, adriatic, charleston, plata, hamas, tripoli, frigate, flotilla, imposed, cuba, havana, straits, lifted, inlet, supplies, receptors, hms, duty, ships, ashore, bombardment, fleet, cruiser, siege, cotton, strip, vessels, shipping, squadron, gibraltar, sailed, port, cuban, baltic, admiral, capturing, batteries, santiago, captured, malta, humanitarian, escort, uss, garrison, sail, cargo, navy, capture, strait, naval, surrender, harbor, convoy, prevented, neutral, gulf, sailing, prevent, patrol, ship, coast, israeli, mediterranean, seized, merchant, raid, fortress, vessel, israel, atlantic, commanded, attempting, missile, britain, allies, boats, french, escaped, harbour, aboard, off, waters, allied, berlin, supply, troops, carolina, carrying.

Words that rhyme with blockade:
trade, aid, blade, shade, grade, cascade, made, accolade, laid, persuade, aide, renegade, crusade, raid, parade, jade, fade, tirade, charade, staid, afraid, evade, decade, promenade, degrade, masquerade, upgrade, glade, retrograde, wade, pervade, braid, mermaid, maid, spade, arcade, fusillade, dissuade, serenade, brigade, escapade, suede, handmade, upbraid, invade, bade, lade, dismayed, brocade, cade, ade, nightshade, manmade, paid, palisade, barricade, centigrade, lemonade, cavalcade, frayed, grenade, homemade, waylaid, colonnade, clade, conveyed, marinade, marmalade, forbade, downgrade, slade, quaid, located, sauteed, buffeted, payed, delayed, hade, stayed, betrayed, weighed, swayed, arrayed, prepaid, quayd, adelaide, portrayed, haid, splayed, cliched, allayed, overlaid, nsaid, motorcade, played, relayed, unafraid, displayed, stade, medicaid.

Adjectives that are often used to describe blockade:
adrenergic, naval, british, neuromuscular, economic, sympathetic, beta, effective, close, complete, pacific, neural, continental, selective, ganglionic, strict, total, autonomic, submarine, adrenoceptor, soviet, partial, federal, german, cholinergic, english, peripheral, chronic, french, induced, commercial, pharmacological, sensory, regional, tight, northern, prolonged, japanese, maritime, rigorous, term, muscarinic, pharmacologic, continuous, russian, successful, epidural, distant, vagal, spinal, differential, anesthetic, parasympathetic, dutch, neuraxial, competitive, acute, betaadrenergic, counter, called, adequate, virtual, egyptian, residual, illegal, allied, neurolytic, cuban, dependent, intercostal, reticuloendothelial, spanish, preoperative, reversible, aerial, rigid, wartime, temporary, irreversible, postsynaptic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective blockade:
runners, runner, running, therapy, technique, treatment, withdrawal, proof, breakers, breaking, regime, duty, oscillations, proclamation, proclamations, liquor, leningrad, drugs, increases, strategies, patrols, peaks, busting, hypotension, madras, pudding.

Consonant match to blockade:
blackard, black-eyed, black eyed, black kid, blake heard, bloc aid.

Words that sound like blockade:
blockade, block head, blockades, block out, black head, blockout, black-eyed, black eyed, black code, black hood, blocked, blackout, blocky, blockhead, black out, black hat, blackett, baquet, black-out, blue cat, black coat, bluecoat, blue coat, placate, plicate, placoid, blogged, block, blade, blonde, blocks, blond, blackened, bloc, blod, boquet, blacked, blockage, blackie, blacky, brocade, blok, blackwood, blakey, blotted, black eye, blockaded, blackhead, blox, bloch, black card, blago, blocs, blue-eyed, blackard, blokey, black cloud, black codes, blockading, bloted, baccate, black lead, black kids, bleaky, blagged, blanquet, blocked out, blockish, blaikie, blanquette, black seed, black wood, black adder, black heads, blickey, black cow, blue eyed, black bead, black rod, blocks out, blue key, bluehead, blackseed, allocate, placket, paquet, plaka, alcaide, plaquette, play god, pluck at, alcayde, back out, backout, bachi, bacchae, bacot, b k, bacote, abligate.