Blockade vs Invade - What's the difference?
blockade | invade |
The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
By extension, any form of formal isolation of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
(nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
(chess) Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it
To create a blockade against.
To move into.
* Spenser
To enter by force in order to conquer.
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To infest or overrun.
To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
As a noun blockade
is blockade.As a verb invade is
to move into.blockade
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(wikipedia blockade)Noun
(en noun)Verb
Anagrams
*invade
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Verb
(invad)- Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.
- Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the grisly shade.
- Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.
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- The picnic was invaded by ants.
- The king invaded the rights of the people.