blockade

1. 1.

   a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

   Synonymsencirclement

   Broadermilitary action

   Narrowernaval blockadesiege

   military

2. 2.

   prevents access or progress

   Broaderobstruction

Other forms of blockade

plural

blockades·

past tense

blockaded·

present participle

blockading·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blockade

What does blockade mean?

blockade means "hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blockade?

blockade has 2 syllables: bloc-kade. The stress falls on "kade". In IPA it is /ˌblɑˈkeɪd/.

What is another word for blockade?

Close synonyms include obstruct, block, hinder, stymie, stymy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blockade a common word?

blockade is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with blockade?

9 words rhyme with blockade. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.