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blockade definition

block·ade (blä kād′)

noun

  1. a shutting off of a port or region of a belligerent state by the troops or ships of the enemy in order to prevent passage in or out in time of war
  2. any blocking action designed to isolate another nation and cut off communication and commerce with it
  3. the force that maintains a blockade
  4. any strategic barrier

Etymology: block + -ade

transitive verb blockaded -·ad′ed, blockading -·ad′·ing

to subject to a blockade

Related Forms:

blockade Idioms

run the blockade

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to go past or through a blockade

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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