blockaders
Ships preventing passage
Blockaders are those who conduct or enforce a blockade—the sealing off of a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
The term appears most often in military and naval contexts: Union blockaders patrolled the Southern coast.
It can also describe protesters who physically obstruct access to buildings or facilities.
Seagoing vessels
- vesselsCarriers or containers
- warshipsMilitary combat vessels
- fleetVehicles under unified command
- harborSafe anchorage for ships
port · embargo · quarantine · contraband · runners · smugglers · patrol · intercept
Surrounding enemy forces completely
- surroundEnclose on every side
- besiegeSurround to force surrender
- fortificationStrengthening defenses or nutrients
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
supply · cutoff · isolation · garrison · trenches · entrenchment · capitulation · surrender
People protesting with signs
- demonstratorsPublic protest participants
- activistsPeople working for causes
- strikersThose who cease work
- boycottersThose refusing participation protest
occupiers · sit-in · march · rally · civil disobedience · resistance · solidarity · disruption
Those who block progress
- disruptorsThose who destabilize systems
- obstructionistsThose who deliberately impede
- delayersThose who cause lateness
- saboteursIntentional disruptors of operations
interferers · stoppers · hindrances · barricaders · roadblock · checkpoint · access · prevention
ships
Seagoing vessels
harbor · port · embargo · quarantine · contraband · runners · smugglers · patrol · intercept · seize
encirclement
Surrounding enemy forces completely
- surroundEnclose on every side
- besiegeSurround to force surrender
- fortificationStrengthening defenses or nutrients
starvation · supply · cutoff · isolation · garrison · trenches · entrenchment · capitulation · surrender · assault
picketers
People protesting with signs
- demonstratorsPublic protest participants
- activistsPeople working for causes
- strikersThose who cease work
boycotters · occupiers · sit-in · march · rally · civil disobedience · resistance · solidarity · disruption · obstruction
impeders
Those who block progress
- disruptorsThose who destabilize systems
- obstructionistsThose who deliberately impede
- delayersThose who cause lateness
saboteurs · interferers · stoppers · hindrances · barricaders · roadblock · checkpoint · access · prevention · interference
blockadersblockaded
Sealed off strategically
besieged · trapped · enclosed · confined · surrounded
blockadersblockade runners
Ships evading naval cordons
smugglers · rescuers · liberators · evacuators · aid convoys
- 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