Blockade

Definition: Blockade

Blockade

Noun

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

2. Prevents access or progress.

Verb

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

2. Render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets".

3. Obstruct access to.

4. Impose a blockade on.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "blockade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Economics

Synonyms: Blockade

Closure

Verb: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct;

Noun: closure, occlusion, blockade; shutting up; Verb: obstruction; (hindrance); embolus; contraction; infarction; constipation, obstipation; blind alley, blind corner; keddah; cul-de-sac, caecum; imperforation, imperviousness; Adjective: impermeability; stopper.

Hindrance

Noun: prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage; embolus, embolism; infarct; interruption, interception, interclusion; hindrance, impedition; retardment, retardation; embarrassment, oppilation; coarctation, stricture, restriction; restraint; inhibition; blockade; (closure).

Restraint

Confinement; durance, duress; imprisonment; incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity; blockade.

Crosswords: Blockade

German (blockade, quad).

But you are a blockade runner (Gone with the Wind; writing credit: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard)

The Big Blockade (1942)

Blockade (1938)

Colonel Heeza Liar Runs the Blockade (1915)

Aus dem Abgrund - Teil 1: Die Blockade von Leningrad (1990)

Books

• Bridge Across the Sky: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949 (reference)

• Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner (reference)

• Gray Phantoms of the Cape Fear : Running the Civil War Blockade (reference)

• Peripheral Nerve Blockade (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blockade (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Operation Blockade (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Lieutenant John Wilkinson Confederate States Navy blockade runner Served on Coast Survey prior to Civil War. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume. It depicts (from left to right) the blockade runners Petrel, Memphis, Elizabeth, Ella Warly, Patras, Alliance, Ann, Stettin, Circassian and Tubal Cain. Three of these vessels, Memphis, Stettin and Circassian later served in the U.S. Navy. Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving from "The Illustrated London News", 23 January 1847, entitled "Wreck of the American Brig 'Somers'.", depicting Somers on her beam ends after she capsized off Vera Cruz, Mexico, while chasing a blockade runner. Credit: NAVY.

The great naval blockade of Round Island. Showing the immense importance of having an efficient "right arm of the national defence". Credit: Library of Congress.

The blockade on the "Connecticut plan". Credit: Library of Congress.

Sketch for the domestic blockade. Credit: Library of Congress.

The real blockade. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stone blockade off Charleston. Credit: Library of Congress.

The blockade of Charleston. Credit: Library of Congress.

Folly Island, S.C. (vicinity of Charleston). Beached remains of the British-built blockade runner Ruby, run aground after passing the Federal squadron, June 10-11, 1863. Credit: Library of Congress.

Health

No pharmaceuticals currently are available to overcome the blockade created by botulinum toxin at the neuromuscular junction. (references)

However, coincident administration of agents known to potentiate neuromuscular blockade such as aminoglycosides, should be avoided. (references)

Botulinum toxin produces its therapeutic effect by a long-term blockade that leads to changes very similar to those produced by surgical denervation. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iraq

The KDP denied that the blockade or village raids occurred. (references)

Colombia

They lifted their blockade after the army threatened to intervene. (references)

Antigua and Barbuda

The police broke the blockade with tear gas and arrested three of the demonstrators, charging them with damage to property. (references)

Economic History

Djibouti

The area was ruled by the Vichy (French) government from the fall of France until December 1942, and fell under British blockade during that period. (references)

Israel

In 1956, French, British, and Israeli forces engaged Egypt in response to its nationalization of the Suez Canal and blockade of the Straits of Tiran. (references)

Armenia

The consequent blockade along both the Azerbaijani and Turkish borders has devastated the economy, because of Armenia's dependence on outside supplies of energy and most raw materials. (references)

Human Rights

Bolivia

Local police told the press that they were attacked while attempting to lift a blockade. (references)

Bolivia

According to the Government, the incident began when an army vehicle stopped due to a blockade on the main road. (references)

Nicaragua

When the bus arrived at the blockade, the assailants in the bus began shooting at the police and rammed the bus through the police blockade. (references)

Political Economy

Armenia

Turkey, siding with Azerbaijan in this conflict, has established a blockade of Armenia, paralleling that of Azerbaijan. (references)

Expressions using "blockade": blockade runner ♦ blockade running ♦ break the blockade ♦ economic blockade ♦ impose a blockade ♦ military blockade ♦ naval blockade ♦ Neuromuscular Blockade ♦ paper blockade ♦ raise a blockade ♦ raise the blockade ♦ run a blockade ♦ run the blockade ♦ To raise a blockade ♦ To run a blockade ♦ total androgen blockade ♦ total estrogen blockade ♦ trade blockade ♦ under blockade. Additional references.

Beginning with "blockade": blockade-runner.

Ending with "blockade": anti-blockade.

Albanian

bllokoj (block, clog, close up, freeze, immobilize, jam, lay up, lock, obstruct, occlude, stop, tie up), bllokadë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قوة محاصرة, ‏حصار (embargo, siege), ‏حاصر (beleaguer, besiege, constrict, invest), ‏عقبة (barricade, block, bunker, difficulty, drawback, hitch, hurdle, inconvenience, interference, jam, obstacle, obstruction, snag, spine, stick, stumbling block), ‏المحاصرة, ‏إعترض (bar, challenge, cross, demur, except, expostulate, impugn, intercept, interpose, interrupt, intervene, object, object to, obstruct, oppose, protest, remonstrate, stop, take exception to, traverse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

блокада, блокирам (block, interlock, jam up, lock, overslaugh, pocket). (various references)

Chinese 

封鎖 (seal off), 封锁 (Blockaded, Blockading, blockage). (various references)

Czech

blokáda. (various references)

Danish

blokade (block). (various references)

Dutch

blokkade (atrioventricular block, block, blocking, cardiac block, heart block, heart-block, infiltration). (various references)

Esperanto

bloki (block), blokado. (various references)

Farsi 

محاصره کردن (Encompass, Gird, Siege, Surround), محاصره (Blockage, Siege), سدراه کردن , سدراه , انسداد (Bloc, Block, Blockage, Choke, Let, Obstruction, Occlusion, Padlock, Stockade), راه بندکردن , راه بندان , بستن (Assess, Attach, Bang, Bar, Belt, Bind, Bloc, Block, Choke, Clasp, Coagulate, Congeal, Cork, Curdle, Gird, Hasp, Impute, Jam, Jell, Knit, Obturate, Padlock, Pen, Picket, Plug, Seal, Shut, Steek, Tighten, Truss, Wattle). (various references)

Finnish

saarto (boycott). (various references)

French

blocus (blockage). (various references)

German

blockade (quad), blockieren (block, jam, obstruct), sperre (barrier, blackout, boom, detent, gate, lock, lock out). (various references)

Greek 

ναυτικός αποκλεισμός, παρεμπόδιση (impeding, obstruction, obtrusiveness, preclusion, prevention), αποκλεισμόσ (blockage, exclusion), αποκλεισμός (exclusion), αποκλείω (cordon off, count out, exclude, preclude). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצור (besiegement, distress, fortification, fortress, siege, straits), להטיל הסגר, חומת הסגר, הסגר (closing, embargo, isolation). (various references)

Hungarian

blokád, ostromzár. (various references)

Indonesian

blokade, memblokir. (various references)

Italian

blocco (block, pad, lock), bloccare (block). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

詰まり (after all, in short, stuffing, ultimate), 封鎖 (freezing funds). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふうさ (freezing), つまり (after all, in brief, in other words, in short, in the long run, stuffing, that is to say, ultimate). (various references)

Korean 

봉쇄대. (various references)

Manx

kiapey, jeigh stiagh (close in, shut in), glassagh (locker, locking up), chemmaltys, chemmaltey. (various references)

Papiamen

blokeo. (various references)

Pig Latin

ockadeblay.(various references)

Portuguese

bloqueio (block), bloquear (barricade, block). (various references)

Romanian

blocadã, bloca (bar, block, close, confine, jam, lock, obstruct, occlude, skid, stop). (various references)

Russian 

блокада (blocade, siege, sieges). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

blokada, opsada (investment, siege). (various references)

Spanish

bloqueo (block, blockage, locking). (various references)

Swedish

blockad, blockera (block, jam). (various references)

Thai

การปิดล้อม (blockage). (various references)

Turkish

abluka (investment). (various references)

Ukrainian

блокувати (block, block up, cordon, obstruct, seal, stop, waylay), блокада. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phong toả (investment). (various references)

Welsh

gwarchae (beleaguer, besiege, siege). (various references)

circumsedebant, circumvallabo, claudamus, claudat, claude, claudent, claudentur, clauderetur, claudet, claudetur, claudeturque, claudi, claudit, clauditis, claudo (clausus), clausa, clausae, clausas, clauserat, clauserit, clausero, clauserunt, clausi, clausis, clausisset, clausit, clausitque, clauso, clausos, clausum, clausus, claususque, clude, cludendi, cludentur, cludere, cludit, cluserit, cluserunt, cluseruntque, clusit, cluso, clusum, clusuris, obsederat, obsederint, obsederunt, obsedit, obsessa, obsessae, obsessi, obsessus, obside, obsidebant, obsidebantur, obsidebat, obsideberis, obsidemus, obsidens, obsident, obsidentibus, obsiderent, obsideret, obsideri, obsides, obsidet, obsidione, obsidionem, obsidionis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "blockade": blockaded, blockader, blockaders, blockades. (additional references)

Words ending with "blockade": counterblockade. (additional references)

Words containing "blockade": counterblockaded, counterblockades. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Blockade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blackaddie, blocade, Bloccato, brockade. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: becloak, blacked, blocked, cloaked, codable.

-2 letters: albedo, backed, balked, cabled, calked, coaled, colead, doable, lacked, locked.

-3 letters: abode, acold, adobe, baked, baled, black, blade, bleak, block, bloke, cable, caked, clade, cloak, coble, coked, coled, decal, dobla, dolce, laced, laked, lobed.

-4 letters: abed, able, aced, alec, aloe, back, bade, bake, bald, bale, balk, bead, beak.

+1 letter: becloaked, blockaded, blockader, blockades, blockhead.

+2 letters: backlogged, blockaders, blockheads.

+3 letters: blackbodies, blacktopped, roadblocked.