military blockade

1. 1.

   the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack

   Synonymssiegebesiegingbeleaguering

   Broaderblockade

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Questions about military blockade

What does military blockade mean?

military blockade means "the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack".

What is another word for military blockade?

Close synonyms include siege, besieging, beleaguering. 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 military blockade a common word?

military blockade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.