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  • noun Plural form of blockade.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blockade.

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Examples

  • Ever since civilization began blockade has been one of the means of bringing defeat to the enemy, and it is essential that we should maintain blockades against the enemy.

    Retrospect and Prophecy 1939

  • The blockades are the application of Israeli state resources to deprive Palestinians of key resources prompting considerable fear within the Palestinian population as a whole for the future.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The blockades are the application of Israeli state resources to deprive Palestinians of key resources prompting considerable fear within the Palestinian population as a whole for the future.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Past US presidents, including Dwight Eisenhower and Jack Kennedy, called blockades acts of war.

    Blockades: Acts of War 2008

  • Past US presidents, including Dwight Eisenhower and Jack Kennedy, called blockades acts of war.

    Blockades: Acts of War 2008

  • On the surface, it appeared that the blockades were an outgrowth of tensions between ethnic Serbs and Albanians on each side of the Ibar River.

    NYT > Home Page By DOREEN CARVAJAL 2011

  • "The blockades are a challenge in terms of access," Kenny said.

    Agriculture Observatory 2008

  • "The blockades are a challenge in terms of access," Kenny said.

    Agriculture Observatory 2008

  • [blockades, that is, gunboats] 'came, and they all ran off with the blockheads,' (sob, sob, sob,) 'and left me, an old lady of forty-six, obliged to work for a living.'

    Army Life in a Black Regiment Higginson, Thomas W 1869

  • [blockades, that is, gunboats] 'came, and they all ran off with the blockheads,' (sob, sob, sob,) 'and left me, an old lady of forty-six, obliged to work for a living.'

    Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

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