All blockade synonyms

noun blockade

• closure — The closure of a place such as a business or factory is the permanent ending of the work or activity there.
• restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
• stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
• roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
• barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
• siege — the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• snag — a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
• obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
• obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
• impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• infarct — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
• infarction — the formation of an infarct.
• blank wall — an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.