blockade

8 letters in word "blockade": A B C D E K L O.

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• Definitions:
• obstruct: hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn" barricade: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" obstruct access to a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy prevents access or progress impose a blockade on
• A blockade is any effort to prevent supplies, troops, information or aid from reaching an opposing force. Blockades are the cornerstone to nearly all military campaigns and the tool of choice for economic warfare on an opposing nation. ...
• Blockade is a 1998 novel written by Derek Hansen about logging in Australia.
• Blockade is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. Akin to solitaire games like Klondike and Gargantua, the object of the game is play the cards into the eight foundations.
• Blockade is a maze arcade game released by Gremlin in 1976. Each player moves their character around leaving a solid line behind them, turning at 90 degree angles. To win you must last longer than your opponent before hitting something. First person to hit something loses. ...
• A strategic placement of a minor piece directly in front of an enemy pawn, where it restrains the pawn's advance and gains shelter from attack. Blockading pieces are often overprotected.
• The closing of an area to keep people and/or supplies from going in and out.
• Usually pertains to the denial of supplies and communication by the naval forces of one belligerent against the ports of an opposing power. Occasionally used to describe cutting of land access to an enemy city. See paper blockade.
• (block·ade) (blok-?d´) 1. receptor blockade, the blocking of the effect of a hormone or neurotransmitter at a cell-surface receptor by a pharmacologic antagonist bound to the receptor. 2. ...
• A situation where a piece or a pawn is prevented from advancing by an opposing piece or pawn.
• the surrounding or blockading of a place, especially a port, by an enemy to prevent entry and exit of supplies. It is an illegal act under international law as it is construed as an act of war.
• The use of naval power to prevent an enemy nation from shipping goods from its ports. Generally it involves stationing war vessels off the coast to prevent the departure of commercial or war ships. [ Top of Page ]
• The act of seizing commercial exchange with a particular country. Such act is common during wartime.
• Conceptualized and popularized by Aron Nimzovich (1886-1935), it refers to the tying down (immobilization) of an enemy pawn by placing a piece (in particular a Knight) directly in front of it.
• An interdiction of international shipments to or from a particular port or country by the military forces of another country .Any nation seeking to impose a blockade must proclaim its intention to do so in order for the action to be valid under international law. ...
• The effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern ports.
• blocking of trade (usually by sea) of an area or country. The North created a blockade of the South by placing a line of ships off the coast of the Confederacy. These ships cut off most cotton exports, and stopped much of the war material headed in. ...
• the barring or shutting off of traffic in and out of an area, such as a seaport or city, by hostile military forces.
• The blocking of a pawn, pawns or a piece by a piece or pieces.

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