blockade
The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
Other meanings
Any form of formal isolation or of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
A kind of
- obstruction
Related words
- blockade runner
- blockade whiskey
- Coulomb blockade
- beta blockade
- blockade crown
- immunoblockade
- nonblockaded
- unblockaded
- antiblockade
- blockader
- counterblockade
- neuroblockade
Word history
From German "Blockade".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “blockade” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.