Definition of "blockading" [blockading]

• Present participle of blockade. (verb)

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• "There is no way that such a blockade, even with Congressional blessing would ever be allowed, considering that in blockading Iran is basically a strategic take over of the main waterway of the majority of the World’s oil supply."
• "In that case, it becomes clear that while it is not criminal, it is a hostile act that entitles the blockading nation to respond inkind."
• "A demand was then made by the so-called blockading powers that the sums ascertained to be due to their citizens by such mixed commissions should be accorded payment in full before anything was paid upon the claims of any of the so-called peace powers."