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Definition of blockade in English: blockadenoun blɒˈkeɪdblɑˈkeɪd 1An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. 封锁 they voted to lift the blockade of major railway junctions 他们投票决定解除对主要铁路枢纽站的封锁。 Example sentencesExamples - This produced angry protest blockades of bin lorries, with local people saying that unless all bins were collected then none would be.
- In response, the Soviet Union imposed an economic blockade.
- However, for a long time the residents showed a reluctance to lift the blockade.
- Because the problem with dirt is that the media had imposed virtually an iron blockade when it came to the really personal stuff.
- The two were jailed for refusing to give undertakings that they would not defy a court order, by taking part in blockades of refuse lorries.
- They advanced yard by yard, imposing a strict blockade with barbed wire and blockhouses.
- With the submarine, the longstanding naval strategy of close blockades of enemy ports had to be abandoned.
- He demanded their removal and imposed a naval blockade on the delivery of weapons to Cuba.
- Throughout 1940 and 1941 the USA tightened an economic blockade of Japan which threatened to cut off most Japanese oil supplies.
- They imposed an economic blockade on the city, forcing people to queue for hours in the heat to enter or leave, and requiring them to show identification in English.
- In the process maybe you participate in a blockade and prevent politician X from entering forum X.
- The blockade meant that lorries attempting to enter or leave the factory were stopped from doing so.
- About 500 workers imposed a blockade on the factory on October 14 after being abruptly informed that the plant was closed and the workforce sacked.
- The cotton factory owners were pleading with the government to intervene on the side of the South in order to lift the blockade.
- We don't think the economic blockade is going to produce a constructive and desirable result.
- His had been simple - lift the blockade, no questions asked.
- The Allies' plan was to strangle the German war economy by imposing a blockade while meanwhile building up their own military strength.
- 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.
- The second major contribution of the blockade was that it prevented the South from exploiting its ability to set cotton prices.
- We must remember this fact because it refutes the argument that one imposes a blockade, embargo, or sanction as a bloodless and humane way of coercing the leaders of a target country.
Synonyms siege, beleaguerment, encirclement rare investment, besiegement barricade, barrier, roadblock obstacle, obstruction, impediment, bulwark, block, hindrance, check, deterrent, hurdle - 1.1 An obstruction of a physiological or mental function, especially of a biochemical receptor.
（生理或心理功能，尤指生化受体的）阻滞，阻塞 Example sentencesExamples - The blockade of these receptors can therefore facilitate dopaminergic transmission by stimulating dopamine release and by potentiating the effects of dopamine receptor stimulation.
- Sexual behavior decreases because of a reduction of plasma testosterone as well as the receptor blockade.
- However, several significant medical contraindications to beta blockade are present.
- 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.
- Interestingly, blockade of this receptor not only seems to affect appetite, but also seems to help with cravings for nicotine.
- The mechanism for this benefit is most likely a blockade of aldosterone receptors.
verb blɒˈkeɪdblɑˈkeɪd [with object]Seal off (a place) to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. 封锁 the authorities blockaded roads in and out of the capital Example sentencesExamples - One voice in the assembling crowd called out, ‘The government's been blockading this town for too long!’
- Protesters responded by blockading the streets, piling rocks and logs onto roads.
- For 900 days the city was blockaded by the Nazi's and the sight of a book about another siege brought back memories.
- Those charged are accused of blockading the lone road into the reserve and intimidating the community to the point where 400 members felt the need to flee.
- But the Americans blockaded the road and refused to let people enter.
- Overseas colonies were ruthlessly picked off, and the Republic's ports were blockaded.
- Several blocks from the building, she found the area was blockaded by police.
- Police arrested eight protesters blockading the road outside the consulate.
- The Federal ships blockading the port closed as near as they dared and managed to shoot a cannon ball through the Denbigh's wheelhouse.
- The students from the youth activist group blockaded an intersection just outside the central plaza.
- Town Hall bosses have criticised residents who blockaded a road after a three-old-boy was involved in an accident with a car.
- Ironically, it was the indigenous people who first recognised the impending catastrophe and took action by blockading logging roads - only to be jailed in large numbers by the authorities.
- Over the weekend peace activists blockaded the road and entered the plant, which is near Reading.
- For five days, London traffic ground to a standstill when police blockaded the area.
- There they blockaded the access road with vehicles, and when construction workers arrived, denied them access.
- The drivers blockaded roads and disrupted traffic in the centre of the city.
- The groups have blockaded roads and, in some cases, set fire to vehicles.
- Ricardo himself fled before the place was completely blockaded.
- But no help came, the baronial forces blockaded the city, and the rebel front began to crumble.
- Thirty people were arrested for blockading the street outside the convention by locking themselves together around organic plants and symbols of an environmentally sustainable future.
Synonyms barricade, close up, block off, shut off, seal, bar besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset, surround archaic invest
Phrases(of a ship) manage to enter or leave a blockaded port. （船只）设法驶入（或驶出）被封锁的港口 vessels suspected of running the UN blockade Example sentencesExamples - He was captured while running a blockade off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina, and placed in an army prison at Point Lookout, Maryland.
- Since his health had not completely returned and his education had not been completed he ran a blockade and went to Europe.
- During the Spanish American War the ‘Adula’ was seized June 29, 1898 by the U.S. cruiser ‘Marblehead’ for attempting to run a blockade at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- Fifty-seven suspects trying to run a blockade were arrested on the ship.
- At first, Russia wanted the entire city - they even ran a blockade to claim it, but the division was finally allowed.
- It is so desperate that they will risk running a blockade without any support since there is no other chance of their survival.
- Fourthly, more and more foreigners used Beijing as their springboard to run a blockade to the third country.
- Our soldiers battled for Stalingrad, ran a blockade of Leningrad, set free our land and peoples of Europe from fascism, stormed Berlin under the red flag of our powerful country.
- If the neutral ship owner tries to run a blockade and is caught, his property suffers penalty, just as dealers trying to introduce provisions into a besieged town would lose their venture.
- So they will actually be able to run a blockade if they come across one.
Derivativesnoun blɒˈkeɪdəblɑˈkeɪdər ‘We can forcibly remove the blockades if we are sure that there is enough evidence that the blockaders are illegal,’ he told the Post. Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- The main streets were shut by successive waves of blockaders who used everything from burning bales of hay to chains.
- Two rams and another iron warship were to form the nucleus of a Confederate fleet designed to sweep away the blockaders and challenge northern supremacy in American waters.
OriginLate 17th century: from block + -ade1, probably influenced by ambuscade. Rhymesabrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade Definition of blockade in US English: blockadenounblɑˈkeɪdbläˈkād 1An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. 封锁 there was a blockade of humanitarian aid the police pulled down blockades on the highway Example sentencesExamples - About 500 workers imposed a blockade on the factory on October 14 after being abruptly informed that the plant was closed and the workforce sacked.
- Throughout 1940 and 1941 the USA tightened an economic blockade of Japan which threatened to cut off most Japanese oil supplies.
- His had been simple - lift the blockade, no questions asked.
- The Allies' plan was to strangle the German war economy by imposing a blockade while meanwhile building up their own military strength.
- They advanced yard by yard, imposing a strict blockade with barbed wire and blockhouses.
- We must remember this fact because it refutes the argument that one imposes a blockade, embargo, or sanction as a bloodless and humane way of coercing the leaders of a target country.
- The second major contribution of the blockade was that it prevented the South from exploiting its ability to set cotton prices.
- 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.
- This produced angry protest blockades of bin lorries, with local people saying that unless all bins were collected then none would be.
- The cotton factory owners were pleading with the government to intervene on the side of the South in order to lift the blockade.
- He demanded their removal and imposed a naval blockade on the delivery of weapons to Cuba.
- In response, the Soviet Union imposed an economic blockade.
- However, for a long time the residents showed a reluctance to lift the blockade.
- We don't think the economic blockade is going to produce a constructive and desirable result.
- In the process maybe you participate in a blockade and prevent politician X from entering forum X.
- With the submarine, the longstanding naval strategy of close blockades of enemy ports had to be abandoned.
- The two were jailed for refusing to give undertakings that they would not defy a court order, by taking part in blockades of refuse lorries.
- They imposed an economic blockade on the city, forcing people to queue for hours in the heat to enter or leave, and requiring them to show identification in English.
- Because the problem with dirt is that the media had imposed virtually an iron blockade when it came to the really personal stuff.
- The blockade meant that lorries attempting to enter or leave the factory were stopped from doing so.
Synonyms siege, beleaguerment, encirclement barricade, barrier, roadblock - 1.1 An obstruction of a physiological or mental function, especially of a biochemical receptor.
（生理或心理功能，尤指生化受体的）阻滞，阻塞 Example sentencesExamples - The blockade of these receptors can therefore facilitate dopaminergic transmission by stimulating dopamine release and by potentiating the effects of dopamine receptor stimulation.
- Interestingly, blockade of this receptor not only seems to affect appetite, but also seems to help with cravings for nicotine.
- However, several significant medical contraindications to beta blockade are present.
- The mechanism for this benefit is most likely a blockade of aldosterone receptors.
- Sexual behavior decreases because of a reduction of plasma testosterone as well as the receptor blockade.
- 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.
verbblɑˈkeɪdbläˈkād [with object]Seal off (a place) to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. 封锁 Example sentencesExamples - One voice in the assembling crowd called out, ‘The government's been blockading this town for too long!’
- The Federal ships blockading the port closed as near as they dared and managed to shoot a cannon ball through the Denbigh's wheelhouse.
- Protesters responded by blockading the streets, piling rocks and logs onto roads.
- For 900 days the city was blockaded by the Nazi's and the sight of a book about another siege brought back memories.
- Town Hall bosses have criticised residents who blockaded a road after a three-old-boy was involved in an accident with a car.
- Several blocks from the building, she found the area was blockaded by police.
- There they blockaded the access road with vehicles, and when construction workers arrived, denied them access.
- But the Americans blockaded the road and refused to let people enter.
- Overseas colonies were ruthlessly picked off, and the Republic's ports were blockaded.
- Ironically, it was the indigenous people who first recognised the impending catastrophe and took action by blockading logging roads - only to be jailed in large numbers by the authorities.
- Those charged are accused of blockading the lone road into the reserve and intimidating the community to the point where 400 members felt the need to flee.
- Ricardo himself fled before the place was completely blockaded.
- Thirty people were arrested for blockading the street outside the convention by locking themselves together around organic plants and symbols of an environmentally sustainable future.
- But no help came, the baronial forces blockaded the city, and the rebel front began to crumble.
- For five days, London traffic ground to a standstill when police blockaded the area.
- Over the weekend peace activists blockaded the road and entered the plant, which is near Reading.
- Police arrested eight protesters blockading the road outside the consulate.
- The students from the youth activist group blockaded an intersection just outside the central plaza.
- The drivers blockaded roads and disrupted traffic in the centre of the city.
- The groups have blockaded roads and, in some cases, set fire to vehicles.
Synonyms barricade, close up, block off, shut off, seal, bar
Phrases(of a ship) manage to enter or leave a blockaded port. （船只）设法驶入（或驶出）被封锁的港口 Example sentencesExamples - Fifty-seven suspects trying to run a blockade were arrested on the ship.
- So they will actually be able to run a blockade if they come across one.
- He was captured while running a blockade off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina, and placed in an army prison at Point Lookout, Maryland.
- Since his health had not completely returned and his education had not been completed he ran a blockade and went to Europe.
- At first, Russia wanted the entire city - they even ran a blockade to claim it, but the division was finally allowed.
- If the neutral ship owner tries to run a blockade and is caught, his property suffers penalty, just as dealers trying to introduce provisions into a besieged town would lose their venture.
- Our soldiers battled for Stalingrad, ran a blockade of Leningrad, set free our land and peoples of Europe from fascism, stormed Berlin under the red flag of our powerful country.
- During the Spanish American War the ‘Adula’ was seized June 29, 1898 by the U.S. cruiser ‘Marblehead’ for attempting to run a blockade at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- It is so desperate that they will risk running a blockade without any support since there is no other chance of their survival.
- Fourthly, more and more foreigners used Beijing as their springboard to run a blockade to the third country.
OriginLate 17th century: from block + -ade, probably influenced by ambuscade. |