Both Uses
blockade
in
Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen
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- Six hundred heads turned slowly from side to side, looking at the blockade of teachers on either side of the gym.†
p. 198.9 *blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
- She smiled out at the blockade.†
p. 199.2
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.