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Definitions for Blockaded
[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: We had difficulty in getting through the blockade of bodyguards.
[3] Pathology . interruption or inhibition of a normal physiological signal, as a nerve impulse or a heart muscle–contraction impulse.
[4] to subject to a blockade.
[5] military the interdiction of a nation's sea lines of communications, esp of an individual port by the use of sea power
[6] something that prevents access or progress
[7] med the inhibition of the effect of a hormone or a drug, a transport system, or the action of a nerve by a drug
[8] to impose a blockade on
[9] to obstruct the way to
Words related to Blockaded
blockadelonely, remote, uninhabited, cloistered, quiet, deserted, hidden, insurmountable, impenetrable, blockade, demonstrate, boycott, bomb, plunder, rob, assault, bombard, harass, ransack, storm
Words nearby Blockaded
blockadeblock signal, block system, block tin, block trade, block vote, blockade, blockade-runner, blockage, blockboard, blockbust, blockbuster
Origin of Blockaded
1670–80; block (in the sense “to create obstacles”) + -ade1
Other words from Blockaded
block·ad·er , noun
coun·ter·block·ade , noun, verb, coun·ter·block·ad·ed, coun·ter·block·ad·ing.
non·block·ad·ed , adjective
pre·block·ade , noun, verb (used with object), pre·block·ad·ed, pre·block·ad·ing.
pro·block·ade , adjective
un·block·ad·ed , adjective
Word origin for Blockaded
C17: from block + -ade , as in ambuscade
Synonyms for Blockaded
cloistered, deserted, hidden, lonely, quiet, remote, uninhabited, abandoned, beleaguered, close, closet, isolate, quarantined, removed, reserved, retired, screened, segregated, sequestered, shy, withdrawn, alone, aloof, confidential, covert, cut off, hermetic, incommunicado, insular, lonesome, off the beaten track, out-of-the-way, personal, private, reclusive, secluse, seclusive, secret, shut off, singular, solitary, tucked away, unapproachable, unfrequented, unsociable