Blockade is valid Scrabble Word

Is blockade a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for BLOCKADE in dictionary:

VERB:

to block with troops or ships
seal off (a place) to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
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. See note under Blockade, n.
hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
render unsuitable for passage
obstruct access to
impose a blockade on

NOUN:

an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving

an obstruction of a physiological or mental function, especially of a biochemical receptor.
sealing off of a place to prevent the passage of goods
Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
prevents access or progress

Words related to BLOCKADE

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Words that contain BLOCKADE

blockaded19 blockader18 blockades18 blockaders19 counterblockade26 counterblockaded28 counterblockades27

How to use BLOCKADE in a sentence

Hannibal encamped at Fiesole, while Gaius Flaminius was still waiting at Arezzo until the roads should become passable that he might blockade them.
Lyons flourished greatly during the time of the continental blockade, as it was the central depot of the commerce between France and Italy.
And these Ansers who are joining in the attack on Mutina and in the blockade of Decimus Brutus will be driven from his Falernian villa.
The blockade, becoming stricter day by day, soon brought about a horrible famine in Antioch.
The blockade prevented Tricoupi from sending officers by sea to take over the command, and there was not time to send them by land.
The blockade of Germany after the Armistice, 1918-1919.
These blockade runners were long, low steam vessels which drew only a few feet of water and had great speed.
After this the land blockade lingered on, but no very serious attack seems to have been made.
We should at first carry on a defensive war, and would therefore have to reckon on a blockade of our coasts, if we succeed in repelling the probable English attack.
Where the place attacked was of great strength, they had recourse in general either to stratagem or to blockade.

CHAPTER X SAVED BY SHIPWRECK The Germans were now getting very anxious as they approached the blockade zone.
There was to be organized a continental blockade against England.
To this expectation the blockade of Southern ports inaugurated by Lincoln in April, 1861, soon put an end.
Hundreds of dressed deodar-logs had caught on a snag of rock, and the river was bringing down more logs every minute to complete the blockade.
On the same day the blockade of Cuban ports was declared and on the day following a call was issued for 125,000 volunteers.
The British policy, on the other hand, was to maintain a sleepless blockade of these ports, and keep the French fleet sealed up in scattered and helpless fragments.
Nevertheless the blockade continued, and there was a scarcity of corn, with a very high price.
At all events, they had seen nothing of the Japanese, and concluded that the blockade before Manila must be pretty slack.
Spain began the work in 1779 with a blockade by sea and an investment by land.
For three years the blockade was continued with varying fortunes, the garrison being now on the verge of starvation, now relieved by British fleets.
In the same month the National forces established a blockade at Cairo.
Sterling Price, and with him arranged to have the blockade removed from the Missouri River.
Regardless of neutral rights, she had declared every part of the Continent, from the Pyrenees to the Elbe, in a state of blockade.
England and France were chafing under the effects of the blockade.
Lanham a little watch which had just come through the blockade from England.
The siege was turned into a blockade by the construction of a boom across the harbour by the besiegers.
The Spaniards were too slow, and the only ships of Spain that showed a sign of the spirit of enterprise and the capacity of adventure, were bottled up by a relentless blockade.
The only factors really feared by the Germans of the governing class are the Western front and the blockade.
This was one of four which ran the blockade in the Bermuda into Charleston, South Carolina, in the early autumn.
It was, as I have said, not until the days of the Civil War blockade that the traffic was wholly destroyed.
And a neutral vessel, loaded before the blockade was established, has a right to leave the port with her cargo.

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