Synonyms of blockaded

blockaded 1 of 2

adjective

as in blocked

Related Words

• blocked
• barricaded
• congested
• obstructed
• choked
• clogged
• stopped (up)
• closed
• dammed
• impassable
• jammed
• plugged (up)
• stuffed
• unpassable
• unnegotiable

Dissimilar Words

• navigable
• passable
• cleared
• negotiable
• open
• free
• clear
• unobstructed
• unclosed
• unstopped
• unclogged

blockaded

2 of 2

verb

past tense of blockade

1

as in guarded

to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry point

the militant protestors blockaded the whole area around city hall

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guarded
• barricaded
• closed (off)
• blocked (off)
• barred
• walled (off)
• locked
• fenced
• screened (off)
• gated
• obstructed
• hedged
• diked
• curtained (off)
• bolted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• opened
• reopened
• unbarred
• unbolted
• unblocked

2

as in besieged

to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication

blockaded the city until it surrendered

Synonyms & Similar Words

• besieged
• attacked
• encircled
• assaulted
• beleaguered
• barricaded
• laid siege to
• blocked
• leaguered
• invested
• isolated
• cut off
• assailed
• confined
• dammed
• beset
• quarantined
• insulated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• freed
• liberated
• released
• rescued
• emancipated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of blockaded

Adjective

Prices have continued to decline since both sides signed an interim peace deal that agreed to reopen the blockaded Strait of Hormuz, which is used to transport around 20% of the world’s oil. — Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Also Sunday, six people, including Bolivian Air Force officers, were killed in the crash of a light aircraft that had been conducting aerial patrols over a blockaded highway. — ABC News, 21 June 2026

Goldman Sachs estimated that Qatar could see its GDP plunge by 14%, citing its lack of alternative export channels to the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 29 Apr. 2026

Australia, which relies directly or indirectly on the blockaded Strait of Hormuz for much of its energy imports, has halved fuel taxes and encouraged the use of public transportation amid soaring gas prices. — Kevin Collier, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026

Cable news anchors pontificated on the possible environmental toll were the Al Salmi’s cargo of two million barrels of crude discharged into the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 1 Apr. 2026

London — The world, hungry for oil, got a modest reprieve earlier this month when Saudi Arabia began diverting millions of barrels of crude —ordinarily destined for ships transiting the blockaded Strait of Hormuz — to its Red Sea port of Yanbu. — Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026

Verb

Nowhere is this dynamic more evident than the Gaza Strip, which Israel fenced in during the 1990s and has blockaded since 2007, citing security concerns and the threat of militant attacks. — Drew Paul, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026

During what became known as the Timber Wars of the late 1980s and 1990s, activists occupied giant redwoods, chained themselves to logging equipment and blockaded roads across California, Oregon and Washington. — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

France About 50 fishermen blockaded a major fuel depot in the coastal southern French town of Fos-sur-Mer on Tuesday, in part to protest rising fuel prices, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV. — Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026

The United States had just bombed Afghanistan, explosives had been found under the George Washington Bridge, the borders of New York State had been blockaded. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

During the early nineteen-eighties, when Paul Volcker, the chair of the Federal Reserve, raised interest rates to twenty per cent in the face of rampant inflation, furious farmers blockaded the Fed’s headquarters with their tractors. — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Yanbu, Saudi Arabia’s main Red Sea oil port, has become a key route for Saudi oil skirting the Strait of Hormuz, ​which Iran has blockaded. — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 26 July 2026

Meanwhile, Lord Corlys Velaryon and his fleet have the city blockaded, while Team Black commands from Dragonstone and Daemon battles in the Riverlands and Aemond broods on the throne, which he’s taken from his maimed brother. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

The Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route for the region’s oil and gas, was effectively blockaded since the outbreak of war between the United States and Iran in late February. — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 25 June 2026