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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024block•ade /blɑˈkeɪd/USA pronunciation n., v., -ad•ed, -ad•ing. n. [countable] - Militarythe closing off of a port, city, etc., by an enemy to prevent anyone from coming in or going out.
v. [~ + object] - Militaryto close off (a port, etc.):They blockaded the port for weeks.
block•ad•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024block•ade (blo kād′),USA pronunciation n., v., -ad•ed, -ad•ing. n. - Militarythe isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- any obstruction of passage or progress:We had difficulty in getting through the blockade of bodyguards.
- Pathologyinterruption or inhibition of a normal physiological signal, as a nerve impulse or a heart muscle–contraction impulse.
v.t. - Militaryto subject to a blockade.
- block (verb, verbal) + -ade1 1670–80
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged . See siege.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: blockade /blɒˈkeɪd/ n - the interdiction of a nation's sea lines of communications, esp of an individual port by the use of sea power
- something that prevents access or progress
- the inhibition of the effect of a hormone or a drug, a transport system, or the action of a nerve by a drug
vb (transitive)- to impose a blockade on
- to obstruct the way to
Etymology: 17th Century: from block + -ade, as in ambuscadeblockˈader n |