blockader
One preventing passage
A blockader is a ship, military force, or person that participates in a blockade—the sealing off of a port, city, or region to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
The term appears most often in historical contexts: Union blockaders patrolled the Southern coast during the Civil War.
It can also refer to someone who blocks access more generally: Protesters acted as blockaders at the factory entrance.
Surrounding enemy forces completely
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- capitulationComplete yielding to demands
- besiegeSurround to force surrender
- fortificationsDefensive barriers against attack
supply lines · attrition · surrender · parley · siege warfare · investment · isolation · garrison
Armed naval vessel
- frigateMedium-sized naval warship
- destroyerOne that ruins completely
- submarineUnderwater naval craft
- corvetteLight, fast warship
cruiser · patrol · convoy · interdiction · embargo · quarantine · maritime · coastguard
Official prohibition on trade
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- banOfficial restriction on something
- moratoriumTemporary prohibition or delay
restriction · interdiction · containment · exclusion · deterrence · enforcement · smuggling · evasion
Pointed fence stake
- activistVigorous cause champion
- demonstratorOne who protests publicly
- strikerOne who hits targets
- boycotterOne refusing patronage purposefully
protester · dissident · agitator · campaigner · sit-in · civil disobedience · placard · march
Narrow passage limiting movement
- bottleneckConstriction limiting throughput
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- impedimentThing that obstructs progress
- hindranceBarrier to progress
congestion · gridlock · logjam · deadlock · standstill · impasse · stall · interference
encirclement
Surrounding enemy forces completely
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- capitulationComplete yielding to demands
- besiegeSurround to force surrender
fortifications · supply lines · attrition · surrender · parley · siege warfare · investment · isolation · garrison · provisions
warship
Armed naval vessel
corvette · cruiser · patrol · convoy · interdiction · embargo · quarantine · maritime · coastguard · fleet
embargo
Official prohibition on trade
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- banOfficial restriction on something
moratorium · restriction · interdiction · containment · exclusion · deterrence · enforcement · smuggling · evasion · contraband
picket
Pointed fence stake
- activistVigorous cause champion
- demonstratorOne who protests publicly
- strikerOne who hits targets
boycotter · protester · dissident · agitator · campaigner · sit-in · civil disobedience · placard · march · rally
chokepoint
Narrow passage limiting movement
- bottleneckConstriction limiting throughput
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- impedimentThing that obstructs progress
hindrance · congestion · gridlock · logjam · deadlock · standstill · impasse · stall · interference · stoppage
- eco-activistseco-warriors, eco-warrior, eco warriors, climate activists, tree hugger
- activistsactivist, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activists, protester, campaigner
- Climate ActivistsGreta Thunberg, eco-warrior, Al Gore, clean energy advocate, David Attenborough
blockaderblockade runner
Craft evading military encirclement
runner · smuggler · besieged · defender · supply ship
blockaderfacilitator
Neutral process guide
liberator · opener · free trader · supplier · provisioner
- naval blockadeFleet sealing off ports
- military blockadeArmed barrier to movement
- blockade runnerCraft evading military encirclement
- blockade runningPenetrating military shipping barriers
- Berlin BlockadeSoviet isolation of western sectors
- economic blockadeRestricting a nation's trade