BLOCKADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blockade mean? 

• BLOCKADE (noun)
  The noun BLOCKADE has 2 senses:

1. a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

2. prevents access or progress

  Familiarity information: BLOCKADE used as a noun is rare.

• BLOCKADE (verb)
  The verb BLOCKADE has 4 senses:

1. hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

2. render unsuitable for passage

3. obstruct access to

4. impose a blockade on

  Familiarity information: BLOCKADE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOCKADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

blockade; encirclement

Hypernyms ("blockade" is a kind of...):

action; military action (a military engagement)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blockade"):

naval blockade (the interdiction of a nation's lines of communication at sea by the use of naval power)

beleaguering; besieging; military blockade; siege (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)

Derivation:

blockade (impose a blockade on)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prevents access or progress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("blockade" is a kind of...):

impediment; impedimenta; obstructer; obstruction; obstructor (any structure that makes progress difficult)

Derivation:

blockade (obstruct access to)

blockade (render unsuitable for passage)

• BLOCKADE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they blockade    ... he / she / it blockades   
Past simple: blockaded   
Past participle: blockaded   
-ing form: blockading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

block; blockade; embarrass; hinder; obstruct; stymie; stymy

Context example:

His brother blocked him at every turn

Hypernyms (to "blockade" is one way to...):

forbid; foreclose; forestall; preclude; prevent (keep from happening or arising; make impossible)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blockade"):

stonewall (obstruct or hinder any discussion)

filibuster (obstruct deliberately by delaying)

check (block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey)

hang (prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury)

bottleneck (slow down or impede by creating an obstruction)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Render unsuitable for passage

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bar; barricade; block; block off; block up; blockade; stop

Context example:

stop the busy road

Hypernyms (to "blockade" is one way to...):

block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude (block passage through)

Verb group:

block; obstruct (shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blockade"):

block off; close off; shut off (block off the passage through)

close (bar access to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

blockade (prevents access or progress)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Obstruct access to

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

block off; blockade

Hypernyms (to "blockade" is one way to...):

block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude (block passage through)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

blockade (prevents access or progress)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Impose a blockade on

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

blockade; seal off

Hypernyms (to "blockade" is one way to...):

beleaguer; besiege; circumvent; hem in; surround (surround so as to force to give up)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

blockade (a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy)

 Context examples 

A form of combined androgen blockade consisting of goserelin and leuprolide used to treat metastatic prostate cancer.

(Flutamide-Goserelin Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

A form of combined androgen blockade consisting of flutamide and leuprolide used to treat metastatic prostate cancer.

(Flutamide-Leuprolide Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

A topical anesthetic cream, containing lidocaine 2.5% and prilocaine 2.5%, that provides neuralgia pain relief by causing loss of cutaneous sensation through reversible blockade of conduction in nerve fibers.

(Eutectic Mixture of Local Anesthetics, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called combined androgen blockade and total androgen blockade.

(Complete androgen blockade, NCI Dictionary)

The blockade of aldosterone synthesis results in increased sodium and water excretion while reducing potassium excretion within the kidney.

(Mespirenone, NCI Thesaurus)

Blockade of this pathway leads to an inhibition of cell growth and the induction of apoptosis in susceptible tumor cells.

(Multi-AGC Kinase Inhibitor AT13148, NCI Thesaurus)

But it is not the cruisers that fight the country’s battles and blockade the enemy’s ports.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This blockade leads to the interruption of cell wall synthesis, consequently, leading to bacterial cell growth inhibition and cell lysis.

(Piperacillin, NCI Thesaurus)

Reflex tachycardia may occur and may be enhanced by blockade of alpha-2 receptors which enhances norepinephrine release.

(Phenoxybenzamine, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called complete androgen blockade and total androgen blockade.

(Combined androgen blockade, NCI Dictionary)