- the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- any obstruction of passage or progress: We had difficulty in getting through the blockade of bodyguards.
- interruption or inhibition of a normal physiological signal, as a nerve impulse or a heart muscle–contraction impulse.
- to subject to a blockade.
- the interdiction of a nation's sea lines of communications, esp of an individual port by the use of sea power
- something that prevents access or progress
- the inhibition of the effect of a hormone or a drug, a transport system, or the action of a nerve by a drug
- to impose a blockade on
- to obstruct the way to
