Entry Word: blockade

Function: noun

Meaning: the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or supplies <it was the blockade of all the enemy's major ports that finally won the war>

Synonyms investment, siege

Related Words encompassment, encirclement; confinement, insulation, isolation, quarantine, seclusion, segregation, sequestration; incarceration, internment

Near Antonyms emancipation, freedom, liberation, release, rescue