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blockade Noun

— A blockade is the blocking of a port or city, so that nothing can come in or out of it. — A blockade refers to ships or armies used to block a port or city.

blockade Verb

— When you set up a blockade, you block a port or city, to form a blockade.

blockade

— noun a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy — noun prevents access or progress — verb impose a blockade on — verb obstruct access to — verb (= block, hinder) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of His brother blocked him at every turn — verb (= barricade, block, stop) render unsuitable for passage block the way barricade the streets stop the busy road

Synonyms blockade synonyms

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Topics blockade topics

What do people use blockade to talk about?
Physical actions Move Pursue

Prevent from moving
Physical actions Move something Open

Block, dam up

Conjugation blockade conjugation

How do you conjugate blockade?

blockade · verb

Examples blockade examples

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My pack leader managed to evade the blockade.
We have with us tonight, that most daring of all blockade runners. whose fleet schooners, slipping past the Yankee guns. have brought us here the very woolens and laces we wear tonight.
But you are a blockade runner?
It's like blockade running, isn't it?
A convoy could meet us at our Amarillo outpost rush the gold to Galveston, then by a blockade runner all the way around to Wilmington, then here.
They'll have a highway blockade in all directions.
No, my orders are to blockade Panama.
There are 10,000 troops in Panama whom you could blockade while I destroyed El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica. You would be helping your country's cause.
I think Napoleon has bitten off more than he can chew in the Spanish peninsula. The Duke of Wellington has a chance to defeat him and bring victory to England, if we can maintain our naval blockade.
The French have broken Macartney's blockade at Brest.
I sweat blood getting through the toughest blockade ever put on a city and you hold out because I'm late with one small load.
About the way we broke through their blockade.
Your majesty, England has been breaking. our continental blockade through Sweden.
We maintained our blockade at the harbor and no cat ever watched a mouse hole more intently.
We have with us tonight, that most daring of all blockade runners whose fleet schooners, slipping past the Yankee guns have brought us here the very woolens and laces we wear tonight.
They also want the interisland steamers to try the blockade. We've got seven small steamers here.
The Duke of Wellington has a chance to defeat him and bring victory to England, if we can maintain our naval blockade.
Enough trouble running the blockade.
The British blockade has us locked in!
He's run more ships through the blockade than anyone.
Blockade the port!
The blockade by land is now complete.
I've a mind to sling you up from your own yardarm. for letting this mountebank slip through my blockade.
How did she slip through the blockade?
Captain, yours is the first ship to make its way through Morgan's blockade in months.
When only one ship in almost a year. has gotten past Morgan's blockade. and her captain can hardly wait to put back to sea.
I was running arms from France past the blockade.
No one succeed to force the English blockade.
I'm not suspicious. But one could think that you forced the blockade because you have friends in the English fleet.
Admiral Renaud would never sent this ship all the way from India to force a blockade without having a worthy cargo that justify the risk.
They didn't think you'll manage to force the blockade.

News and current affairs

But the blockade only makes people more desperate.
Israel's blockade amounts to collective punishment.
Why do Europe and America support a blockade of young minds?
Indeed, the current military operation follows Israel's two-year blockade of Gaza, which was supposed to have damaged Hamas, but failed to do so.
In other words, a revolution in Saudi Arabia or a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could still inflict damage on the US and its allies.
A long-term blockade of a strong EU will necessarily change this viewpoint.
When the Gaza Strip was plunged into darkness last week as a result of the Israeli fuel blockade, many people around the world were surprised.
The overhang is a blockade against growth.
Yet it is certainly one way to overcome the institutional blockade that now looms.
Israel and the US led a virtual blockade on Palestine, with Israel refusing to return collected taxes and the US pressing world banks not to recognize the signature of the Palestinian finance minister.
Moreover, closing the straits would amount to a self-imposed blockade that would hit Iran's own domestic energy needs hard, owing to its lack of refining capacity.
In the days of the Nazi blockade of Leningrad, Nanny took out of the city a sack of flour.
Indeed, in the very week that Putin was meddling in Ukraine's presidential election, he was threatening to blockade one of those statelets, Georgia's Abkhazia region, after it had the temerity to vote for a president the Kremlin did not like.
The Turks will not let Cypriot ships into their harbors and have not been on speaking terms with the Israelis since nine Turkish citizens were killed on a ship that sought to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza.
With the backing of the US, Canada, and the European Union, Israel has maintained its blockade in an attempt to defeat Hamas, which won the elections here in 2006.
When they do, I will probably still be here in my father's house, waiting for the blockade to end.
Above all, border crossings between Israel and the Palestinian territories should be reopened for the sick, for students, and for families whose members were separated by the blockade.
Negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas could be the first step toward a permanent end to hostilities and to the blockade of Gaza.
With the border closed under Israeli blockade for more than two years, levels of poverty, unemployment, and despair have grown, with young men increasingly interested in joining the global jihad as it comes to Gaza.
Israel's blockade amounts to collective punishment. It is hurting all of us, whether we support Hamas or not.
Moreover, Palestinians are not convinced that UN recognition will change their daily lives as long as the international community takes no action to end the Israeli occupation on the West Bank and the siege and blockade of Gaza.
Israel's blockade of Gaza and occupation of Palestinian territories on the West Bank, not to mention the road blocks, destruction of homes, and other daily torments of the Palestinians, are also a form of institutionalized inhumanity.

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