blockade

• render unsuitable for passage
• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
• obstruct access to
• a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
• prevents access or progress
• impose a blockade on
• The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies
• An obstruction to passage
• 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
• Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress
• To obstruct entrance to or egress from

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