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blockade
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- We could not enforce the decisive blockade or interruption which is possible from surface vessels.†
blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
- It in no way diminishes, but on the contrary definitely increases, the power of our long-distance blockade.†
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- Similarly, the entrance of Italy into the war increases the power of our long-distance blockade.†
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.