Blockading is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BLOCKADING in dictionary:

VERB:
• BLOCKADE, to block with troops or ships
• seal off (a place) to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
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.
ADJECTIVE:
• blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors

Words related to BLOCKADING

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How to use BLOCKADING in a sentence

• Far away, like snow-white gulls in the distance, were the sails of the blockading fleet.
• Upon this the Romans abandoned their preparations for an assault, and contented themselves with blockading the walls by land and water.
• In the Franco-Prussian war of 1871, the Germans were blockading the city of Paris and the country around it.
• The blockading fleet finds, therefore, a base in the great harbour of Rosyth, while a cruiser squadron might lie in support off the Orkney Isles.
• They are not blockading Genoa, he said, but simply occupying the station best suited to intercept a contraband trade.
• Rear-Admiral Man, who had been blockading Cadiz since his detachment there by Hotham, in October, 1795, was ordered up to the main fleet.
• I am blockading Genoa, according to the orders of the Admiralty, and in the way I think most proper.
• Vessels attempting to enter or leave these ports, if they disregarded the warnings of a blockading ship, were to be captured and brought as prizes to the nearest convenient port.
• I had determined to try a new method of getting through the blockading squadron, seeing that the usual plan, as described above, was no longer feasible or, at least, advisable.
• We were hidden by Fort Fisher from the blockading squadron lying off the bar, there to remain till some time after nightfall.
• Rumor immediately had it that she was from the blockading fleet of Santiago, and every eye was turned upon her with interest.
• Now she quickly displayed the night-signal of the American blockading fleet, as well as her own private number, but no answer came to either.
• Our blockading fleet, with accompanying transports, lay at anchor in Tybee harbor.
• In the night a fresh gale brought over a flotilla of French provision boats, which dashed through the English blockading squadron.
• For thirty to forty days, each blockading ship kept the seas and then returned to port for a short period of rest.
• To Hawke was entrusted the task of blockading Conflans in Brest, and a greater feat of seamanship is not to be found in British records.
• In 1668 he was in command of several vessels and 300 men, blockading Havana.
• A buccaneer who in the year 1684 was one of the mixed English and French fleet blockading Panama.
• Years before the first shot was fired the French and British Navies had prepared their plans for blockading the Austrians in the Adriatic and the Germans in the North Sea.
• So friend and foe alike are apt to side against us by making the laws against blockading fleets very much harder than those against besieging armies.
• So if besieging armies have the right to stop supplies from reaching the places they besiege, why should blockading fleets be told to let supplies go through? 2.
• We banged the workroom door shut and I took time to shove a heavy divan against it, blockading it.
• Before we could help Belgium, England, blockading Germany to keep her from getting foodstuffs, had to consent.
• They are only ways of blockading completely the progress to come, of building up the past again behind new patchwork of plaster.
• I think the papers related to several blockade running vessels coming out from England, and of course the Yankee blockading ships will be ready for them.
• Blockading squadrons, therefore, had to be improvised, and orders at once issued for the purchase and equipment of steam vessels from the merchant marine and the coasting service.
• Besides blockading our extensive coast, squadrons larger than ever before assembled under our flag have been put afloat and performed deeds which have increased our naval renown.
• Union fleets were blockading every important Southern port.
• While Tordenskjold was away at Marstrand, the enemy sallied forth and snapped up seven of the smaller vessels of his blockading fleet.
• Ahead of him and on each beam were the slow-moving vessels of the blockading squadron, most of them hull down and with banked fires.
• Soon he ordered the Russian fleet, which in cooeperation with the squadrons of the allies was blockading Malta, to withdraw from the conflict.
• I say, it could not be prevented, even if the whole British fleet were blockading it, instead of being there to relieve it.
• But they find it more profitable to hold the nation to ransom by blockading the supply of the necessaries of life.
• A new colored leader, Dessalines, arose and all the eight thousand remaining French surrendered to the blockading British fleet.

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