WordNet
military blockade
n. the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack [syn: siege, besieging, beleaguering]
Usage examples of "military blockade".
The military blockade responded with a flurry of activity, but Hawat knew that if the Supreme Bashar himself was not willing to fire upon them, none of the lower-ranking officers would take the risk.
She quickly ordered the message sent, a decision that agreed with my own assessment of both Croix's willingness to strand them somewhere unpleasant and the futility of using this scow to try and pass a military blockade.
The moral aspects of the military blockade as a weapon in times of peace had been bothering me.