Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having access obstructed by emplacement of a barrier, or by threat of force.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
blockade .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective preventing entry or exit or a course of action
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Examples
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With a skeptical eye but enormous tenderness, novelist and screenwriter David Benioff dreams up his grandfather's wartime exploits in blockaded Leningrad .....
City of Thieves: Summary and book reviews of City of Thieves by David Benioff. 2008
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The coast of North Carolina, which has never been thoroughly blockaded, is swarming with privateers, who prey upon Northern commerce, and take their prizes into port without molestation.
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Prime minister David Cameron was a little nearer the mark when he called the blockaded Gaza
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Even British jurists agreed that no place could be called blockaded unless watched by a force of warships that cut all communication between the blockaded harbor and the outer oceans.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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The courts, however, decided that a port so little guarded as Wilmington was at that time could not be legally called blockaded, and the brig was therefore released.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898
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Considering the fact that she was too decayed to put to sea, had no guns aboard, no crew, and was, in fact, laid up, the feat of the _Tenedos_ was not very wonderful; a row-boat could have "blockaded" her quite as well.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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James states that she was "blockaded" in port by the _Tenedos_, during part of 1814; but was too much awed by the fate of the
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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(Gaza is blockaded which is even worse than being occupied by israel).
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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In a document from 2008, after a Hamas-engineered breach of the blockaded Gaza-Egypt border, Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia is quoted as telling his Israeli counterpart, Tzipi Livni, that if Israel can reoccupy the West Bank it can reoccupy a border, an apparent reference to the Gaza-Egypt frontier.
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The West Coast ports will be blockaded on December 12th in solidarity with longshoremen and port truckers struggles against EGT and Goldman Sachs, the west coast port shutdown website says.
Occupy aims to shut down west coast ports - as it happened 2011
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