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Definition of Blockade

1. Verb. Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of. "His brother blocked him at every turn"

2. Noun. A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.

3. Verb. Render unsuitable for passage. "Stop the busy road"

4. Noun. Prevents access or progress.

5. Verb. Obstruct access to.

6. Verb. Impose a blockade on.

Definition of Blockade

1. n. The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.

2. v. t. 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.

Definition of Blockade

1. Noun. The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out. ¹

2. Noun. By extension, any form of formal isolation of something, especially with the force of law or arms. ¹

3. Noun. (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade. ¹

4. Noun. (chess) Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To create a blockade against. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blockade

1. to block [v -ADED, -ADING, -ADES] - See also: block

Medical Definition of Blockade

1. 1. Intravenous injection of large amounts of colloidal dyes or other substances whereby the reaction of the reticuloendothelial cells to other influences (e.g., by phagocytosis) is temporarily prevented. 2. Arrest of peripheral nerve conduction or transmission at autonomic synaptic junctions, autonomic receptor sites, or myoneural junctions by a drug. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blockade

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Literary usage of Blockade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1906)
"Breach or violation of blockade is the un- Definition allowed ingress or egress of a vessel in spite of the °|Breach blockade. The attempted breach is, ..."

2. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"many of the operations of a blockade take place far beyond that distance from the shore ... So that a blockade has irrealer extent than a simple transfer ..."

3. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"Since a blockade exposes ships intending to enter the port to the risk of confiscation, a shipowner who before the blockade contracted to carry goods to the ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"owners with the avowed and bona fide purpose of inquiring whether the blockade of that port yet continued, to the end that, if it had ceased, ..."

5. The Principles of International Law by Thomas Joseph Lawrence (1910)
"251 We must now attempt an answer to the question What are the acts which amount to violations of blockade ? The reply will differ widely from that which ..."

6. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1916)
"SOME PHASES OF THE LAW OF blockade Although the development of international law has ... One of the most important of this class of operations is blockade. ..."

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