blockade
noun
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.
unblockaded
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a word derived from
blockade.
Example Sentences
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China's only unblockaded supply route for U.S. goods is the Burma Road.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many people misguidedly feared that help for unblockaded Finland, which was in fact in the same international position as Portugal or Switzerland, might hinder Britain and aid Hitler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Lafitte made a formal protest against these so-called rights of search and impressment aboard an American sloop sailing from the neutral port of New Orleans to the unblockaded port of Vera Cruz.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet
Such a stoppage to an unblockaded port would be so unequivocal an infringement of the neutral rights, that we cannot conceive it will be attempted.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
The coast-wise railroads, again, kept Havana and the country adjacent to them in open, if limited, communication with the sea, so long as any one port upon their lines remained unblockaded.
From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
