All 6 Uses
blockade
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Queen of Attolia
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- Attolia blockaded the island with her own navy and waited.†
Chpt 11blockaded = kept people and goods from reaching a location
- Sounis's troops were still blockaded on Thegmis.†
Chpt 11
- The ships were scheduled to be delivered in time to break the blockade of Thegmis and to support a land invasion before the arrival of the summer windstorms.†
Chpt 11blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
- Our army would have to break the blockade at the bottom of the pass and cross the river and those hills to reach her.†
Chpt 11 *
- Now it suited the queen's purpose well, allowing her to be close to her army as it blockaded the pass to Eddis and to communicate with her ships as they moved in and out of the harbor at her orders.†
Chpt 14blockaded = kept people and goods from reaching a location
- I would not have thought it of the officers in the blockade at the bridge by the Old Aracthus Gate, but if they were overwhelmed and there were no survivors, the Eddisians might have got through without warning.†
Chpt 14blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
Definitions:
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(1)
(blockade) action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, blockade can refer to any blockage--such as a physiological obstruction of a biochemical receptor.