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Antonyms for blockaded
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : blo-keyd |
Phonetic Transcription : blɒˈkeɪd |
- advance
- advocate
- aid
- allow
- assist
- begin
- build
- center
- combine
- compliment
- construct
- continue
- desegregate
- encourage
- exclude
- extroverted
- face
- facilitate
- fail
- flatter
- forward
- free
- friendly
- further
- give
- guard
- help
- hurt
- improve
- include
- inhabited
- injure
- join
- joining
- lay bare
- leave alone
- let down
- let go
- let up
- liberate
- loose
- loosen
- lose
- make happy
- meet
- mingle
- mingling
- neglect
- open
- outgoing
- passable
- permit
- please
- populated
- praise
- promote
- protect
- public
- push
- receive
- reject
- release
- reveal
- save
- seen
- set free
- sociable
- socialize
- socializing
- soothe
- start
- support
- surrender
- take out
- traveled
- unblock
- unclog
- uncover
- undermine
- unfasten
- unite
- unlock
- unloose
- unplug
- unreserved
- unseal
- unstop
- untie
- unwrap
- weaken
- welcome
Definition of blockaded
Origin :- mid-17c., from block (v.) + -ade, false French ending (the French word is blocus, 18c. in this sense, which seems to be in part a back-formation from the verb bloquer and in part influenced by Middle Dutch blokhuus "blockhouse").
- As in secluded : adj isolated, sheltered
- As in impassable : adj closed
- As in screened : adj secluded
- As in picket : verb protest against, for cause
- As in raid : verb attack, pillage
- As in seclude : verb isolate, hide
- As in bar : verb secure, usually with a length of material
- As in shut off/shut out : verb exclude; screen
- As in barricade : verb block, usually to protect
- As in surround : verb enclose, encircle something
- As in beleaguer : verb harass, besiege
- As in besiege : verb surround; assault
- As in block : verb obstruct
- As in shut out : verb exclude
- As in mew : verb enclose
- As in sequestrate : verb seclude
- As in compass : verb enclose
- As in enclose : verb put inside, surround
- As in gird : verb encircle; strengthen
- It had been blockaded for months with its keel out of water.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Her enemies had supposed that she was exhausted by the war, and our ships were blockaded at Mitylene.
- Extract from : « Menexenus » by Plato
- Their crime was high treason against Medina while it was blockaded.
- Extract from : « A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihd' » by Moulavi Gergh Ali
- The State of Yucatan was not assisting in the war and did not need to be blockaded.
- Extract from : « The Naval History of the United States » by Willis J. Abbot.
- The Houses of Parliament were blockaded by the Spitalfields weavers.
- Extract from : « Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Was I to be blockaded from my clothes all the rest of the afternoon?
- Extract from : « The Land of Thor » by J. Ross Browne
- It was not pretended that they would be blockaded effectively.
- Extract from : « Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 » by Alfred Thayer Mahan
- As yet the three travellers were ignorant that the place was blockaded by the guerilla of Arroyo.
- Extract from : « The Tiger Hunter » by Mayne Reid
- All the famous shops on the Boulevards had been blockaded for more than a week.
- Extract from : « The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete » by John Forster
- He had no ship of war at his disposal, and he feared that Dublin might be blockaded.
- Extract from : « Ireland under the Tudors, Volume I (of II) » by Richard Bagwell
Synonyms for blockaded
- abandoned
- alone
- aloof
- annoy
- arrest
- assail
- assault
- attack
- badger
- band
- bar
- barricade
- bedevil
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- belt
- beset
- besiege
- bind
- block
- block off
- block out
- blockade
- blockaded
- bolster
- bolt
- bomb
- bombard
- border
- bother
- bound
- box in
- box up
- boycott
- brace
- brake
- breach
- break in
- buttress
- cage
- catch
- caulk
- charge
- check
- choke
- cincture
- circle
- circumscribe
- circumvent
- clog
- cloister
- cloistered
- close
- close around
- close in
- close in on
- close off
- close out
- closet
- come at from all sides
- compass
- conceal
- confidential
- confine
- congest
- congregate
- coop
- corral
- cover
- covert
- cut off
- dam
- deadbolt
- debar
- defend
- demonstrate
- descend on
- deserted
- despoil
- deter
- devastate
- dike
- discontinue
- edge
- embargo
- encase
- encircle
- enclave
- enclose
- encompass
- enfold
- enshroud
- envelop
- environ
- evict
- fall upon
- fasten
- fence
- fence in
- fence off
- fill
- fire on
- forage
- foray
- forbidden
- fortify
- fringe
- gird
- girdle
- gnaw
- go around
- halt
- hang up
- harass
- harry
- heat
- hedge
- hem in
- hermetic
- hidden
- hide
- hinder
- hit the bricks
- hold up
- imbue
- immure
- impede
- impenetrable
- implant
- impound
- imprison
- include
- incommunicado
- induct
- inroad
- insert
- insular
- insurmountable
- intercept
- interfere with
- intern
- inundate
- invade
- invest
- isolate
- jail
- jam
- keep out
- knock off
- knock over
- latch
- lay siege to
- lean against
- lean on
- limit
- lock
- lock in
- lock out
- lock up
- lonely
- lonesome
- loop
- loot
- make ready
- maraud
- march on
- margin
- mask
- mew
- mure
- nag
- obstruct
- obstructed
- occlude
- off the beaten track
- ostracize
- out-of-the-way
- outline
- overrun
- pathless
- pen
- persecute
- personal
- pester
- pirate
- plague
- plug
- plunder
- prepare
- prevent
- private
- put upon
- quarantine
- quarantined
- quiet
- rake
- ransack
- ready
- reclusive
- refuse
- reinforce
- remote
- removed
- reserved
- restrict
- retire
- retired
- rifle
- rim
- ring
- rob
- round
- sack
- sally
- sally forth
- screen
- screened
- seal
- seclude
- secluse
- seclusive
- secret
- secure
- segregate
- segregated
- separate
- sequester
- sequestered
- set apart
- set upon
- shell
- shroud
- shut in
- shut off
- shut out
- shut up
- shy
- siege
- singular
- skirt
- slough
- solitary
- spoliate
- stall
- steel
- stonewall
- stop
- stop up
- stopper
- storm
- strafe
- strike
- stymie
- support
- surround
- sweep
- swoop
- tackle
- take out of play
- tease
- thwart
- tip over
- torpedo
- trackless
- trammel
- trap
- tucked away
- unapproachable
- unfrequented
- uninhabited
- unsociable
- untrodden
- veil
- verge
- vex
- walk out
- wall
- wall in
- waste
- withdraw
- withdrawn
- work on
- work over
- worry
- wrap
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