Dictionary Entry
blockade
blockade is a 8-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
An obstruction to passage.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4noun
Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
- 5noun
To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
- 6noun
a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
Synonyms
- 7noun
prevents access or progress
- 8verb
impose a blockade on
- 9verb
obstruct access to
- 10verb
render unsuitable for passage
"block the way"
"barricade the streets"
- 11verb
hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
"His brother blocked him at every turn"
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