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单词 blockade
释义

blockade

/blɒˈkeɪd /
noun
1An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving: they voted to lift the blockade of major railway junctions...
  • The British then imposed a blockade which restricted trade with France and the USA and prevented the movement of French warships at Martinique, and of French gold shipped there.
  • Throughout 1940 and 1941 the USA tightened an economic blockade of Japan which threatened to cut off most Japanese oil supplies.
  • In response, the Soviet Union imposed an economic blockade.

Synonyms

siege, beleaguerment, encirclement
rare investment, besiegement
barricade, barrier, roadblock;
obstacle, obstruction, impediment, bulwark, block, hindrance, check, deterrent, hurdle
1.1An obstruction of a physiological or mental function, especially of a biochemical receptor.The blockade of these receptors can therefore facilitate dopaminergic transmission by stimulating dopamine release and by potentiating the effects of dopamine receptor stimulation....
  • The mechanism for this benefit is most likely a blockade of aldosterone receptors.
  • One would expect the effect of blockade on airways function to be rapid and indeed the risk ceases to be significant after the first year of exposure.
verb [with object]
Seal off (a place) to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving: the authorities blockaded roads in and out of the capital...
  • Over the weekend peace activists blockaded the road and entered the plant, which is near Reading.
  • Ricardo himself fled before the place was completely blockaded.
  • The Federal ships blockading the port closed as near as they dared and managed to shoot a cannon ball through the Denbigh's wheelhouse.

Synonyms

barricade, close up, block off, shut off, seal, bar;
besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset, surround
archaic invest

Phrases

run a blockade

Derivatives

blockader

/blɒˈkeɪdə / noun ...
  • ‘We can forcibly remove the blockades if we are sure that there is enough evidence that the blockaders are illegal,’ he told the Post.
  • Road blockades, and the use of police and military force against the blockaders, could resume if a permanent agreement is not reached.
  • As you can hear from this home video, the police arrived and tried to reason with the blockaders.

Origin

Late 17th century: from block + -ade1, probably influenced by ambuscade.

Rhymes

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