Definitions for blockade

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blockade block·ade

Spelling: [blo-keyd]

IPA: /blɒˈkeɪd/

Blockade is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 299 anagrams from letters in blockade (abcdeklo).

Definitions for blockade

noun

1. the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
2. any obstruction of passage or progress:
3. Pathology. interruption or inhibition of a normal physiological signal, as a nerve impulse or a heart muscle–contraction impulse.

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to a blockade.

Origin of blockade

1670-80; block (in the sense “to create obstacles”) + -ade¹

Examples for blockade

The British Isles were declared to be in a state of blockade.

A blockade would have rapidly cut off Pakistan from oil supplies.

At 23 years old he has lived under the blockade for almost a third of his life and he is fed up.

Those are both more than double the numbers from before the blockade.

Few, if any, are from Gaza, partly because of the blockade and partly because Hamas has pushed gays even deeper into the closet.

The blockade had raised even the most simple articles to the price of luxuries.

Besides which he established a blockade in front of the harbour when the weather permitted.

They wont do that, and if they do, England will break the blockade.

Then we will all have to get out or else be obliged to run the blockade.

But Karim has been without work since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007 and Israel imposed its seven-year blockade.