blockade
blockade is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An obstruction to passage. To raise a blockade. See under Raise.
- 2.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. "Blockaded the place by sea." Gilpin.
- 3.Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress. Till storm and driving ice blockade him there. Wordsworth.
- 4.To obstruct entrance to or egress from. Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door. Pope.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- air
- alley
- bar
- blind
- block
- bolt
- bung
- button
- caecal
- caecum
- choke
- clinch
- close
- closure
- constipation
- contraction
- cork
- corner
- cram
- cul-de-sac
- dam
- door
- down
- embolus
- fill
- hermetically
- hinder
- hindrance
- impassable
- impenetrable
- imperforate
- imperforation
- impermeability
- impermeable
- impervious
- imporous
- infarction
- invious
- keddah
- obstipation
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is blockade.
- What is an obstruction to passage. To raise a blockade. See under Raise called?
- What is hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress. Till storm and driving ice blockade him there. Wordsworth called?
- What is to obstruct entrance to or egress from. Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door. Pope called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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