blockade

blockade
Synonyms and related words:
Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, afterthought, akinetic epilepsy, apoplexy, arm, armor, armor-plate, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, attack, autonomic epilepsy, ban, bank, bar, bar out, barricade, barrier, barring, battle, beleaguer, beleaguerment, beset, besetment, besiege, besiegement, bind, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, block up, blockade, blockading, blockage, blocking, bolt, bottleneck, bound, box in, boycott, bulwark, bung, bureaucratic delay, cage, cardiac epilepsy, castellate, catch, caulk, cecum, censorship, chamber, check, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, choking, choking off, circumscription, clog, clog up, clogging, clonic spasm, clonus, close, close in, close off, close tight, close up, closing, closing up, closure, compass, confinement, congest, congestion, constipate, constipation, constrict, constriction, contain, convulsion, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cordoning, cork, corral, cortical epilepsy, costiveness, count out, cover, cramp, crenellate, crowd, cul-de-sac, cursive epilepsy, curtain, cut off, dam, dam up, dead end, debar, debarment, debarring, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, demarcation, detainment, detention, determent, deterrent, difficulty, dig in, diurnal epilepsy, dog, double take, dragging, drawback, eclampsia, embargo, embattle, embolism, embolus, encircle, encirclement, enclose, enclosure, encompass, encompassment, enshrine, entrench, envelop, envelopment, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, exception, exclude, exclusion, falling sickness, fence, fence in, fill, fill up, fit, fixation, focal epilepsy, foot-dragging, fortify, foul, freeze out, frenzy, garrison, gorge, grand mal, halt, hampering, hang-up, harass, harry, haute mal, hazard, hedge in, hem in, hindering, hindrance, hitch, holdback, holdup, house in, hurdle, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, ignore, immurement, impasse, impediment, impound, imprison, imprisonment, inadmissibility, incarcerate, incarceration, include, inclusion, infarct, infarction, inhibition, injunction, interference, interim, interruption, invest, investment, jail, jam, joker, keep out, kennel, lag, lagging, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, lay siege to, leaguer, leave out, let, lock, lock out, lockjaw, lockout, logjam, man, man the garrison, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, mew, mew up, mine, moratorium, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, narrowing, negativism, nocturnal epilepsy, nonadmission, nuisance value, objection, obstacle, obstipate, obstipation, obstruct, obstruction, obstructionism, obstructive, occlude, occlusion, omission, omit, one small difficulty, opposition, ostracize, pack, palisade, paperasserie, paroxysm, pass over, pause, pen, pen in, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, pincer movement, plug, plug up, pocket, preclude, preclusion, prohibit, prohibition, psychic epilepsy, psychological block, psychomotor epilepsy, quarantine, rail in, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reflex epilepsy, reject, rejection, relegate, relegation, repression, reprieve, repudiate, repudiation, resistance, respite, restraint, restriction, retardance, retardation, retardment, roadblock, rotatoria, rub, sealing off, seizure, send to Coventry, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, setback, shrine, shut in, shut off, shut out, shut tight, shut up, shutdown, shutting, shutting up, siege, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, snag, soften up, spasm, spile, squeeze, squeeze shut, stable, stanch, stay, stay of execution, stench, stifle, stop, stop up, stoppage, stopper, stopple, strangle, stranglehold, strangulate, strangulation, stricture, stroke, stuff, stuff up, stumbling block, stumbling stone, suffocate, suppression, surround, suspension, taboo, tardy epilepsy, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tie-up, time lag, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, trismus, ucinate epilepsy, vertical envelopment, visitation, wait, wall, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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Synonyms:
(as ports, so as to prevent egress or ingress), , , , (as of a port), ,


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  • Blockade — bezeichnet: Blockade (Militär), beim Militär die Unterbindung der Versorgung des Gegners Blockade (Schach), beim Schachspiel eine Strategie zum Blocken der Bauern Blockade (Film), einen US amerikanischen Film über den spanischen Bürgerkrieg… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • blockade — n Blockade, siege are comparable when denoting an attempt of a belligerent force to break down the resistance of the enemy by preventing egress or ingress of men or entrance of supplies over a considerable period of time. Blockade is used chiefly …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Blockade — Block*ade , n. [Cf. It. bloccata. See {Block}, v. t. ] 1. 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. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • blockade — [blä kād′] n. [ BLOCK + ADE] 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… …   English World dictionary

  • Blockade — Block*ade , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blockaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blockading}.] 1. 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • blockade — ► NOUN ▪ an act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. ► VERB ▪ set up a blockade of. ● run a blockade Cf. ↑run a blockade …   English terms dictionary

  • Blockade — (franz. Blocus, engl. Blockade, Blocking), die Absperrung eines feindlichen Ortes oder Bezirks vom Verkehr und namentlich vom Handelsverkehr durch eine kriegführende Macht. Hiernach fällt unter den Begriff der B. im weitern Sinn auch die… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • blockade — I (barrier) noun bar, barricade, block, blockage, bottleneck, cordon, curb, impediment, obsessio, obsidio, obstacle, obstruction, stop, stumbling block II (enclosure) noun circumjacence, circumscription, circumvallation, compass, containment,… …   Law dictionary

  • Blockade — Blockade, 1) B. einer Festung, das enge Einschließen einer Festung, um dieselbe von der Verbindung mit Außen abzuschließen; s.u. Festungskrieg; 2) B. eines Hafens, die B. eines feindlichen Hafens wird von Kriegsschiffen, welche vor demselben… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Blockade — Blockade, in der Buchdruckerei jene Stelle im Satze, wo statt des Buchstabenbildes die untere Seite der Letter abgedruckt erscheint, ein in der Mitte getrennter schwarzer Fleck (Fliegenkopf) …   Lexikon der gesamten Technik

  • Blockade — Blockāde, Absperrung eines Hafens oder einer Küste durch Kriegsschiffe. Die B. muß wirksam (effektiv) sein, d.h. die Ein und Ausfahrt und die Landung ständig durch Kriegsschiffe oder auch Landbatterien verhindern. Blockadebrecher, Schiffe, welche …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

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