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

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. An obstruction to passage.
3. transitive 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.
4. noun. Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
5. noun. To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
6. noun. a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

   Synonyms: encirclement

7. noun. prevents access or progress
8. verb. impose a blockade on
9. verb. obstruct access to
10. verb. render unsuitable for passage

    "block the way"

    "barricade the streets"

    Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, stop

11. verb. hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

    "His brother blocked him at every turn"

    Synonyms: block, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy

Synonyms

encirclement, bar, barricade, block, stop, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy

Common word forms

blockaded, blockader, blockades, blockading

Words from these letters

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