Aid
Aid verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Blockading is an antonym for aid.
Blockading
Blockading adjective - Blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors.
Both words in one sentence
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Additionally, most American businesses were making money off of supplying the British and French armies (the Royal Navy was blockading Germany, so none of the Central Powers could receive any aid), which was only more incentive for the Germans to sink American ships.
Source: Useful Notes / Woodrow Wilson - After blockading the gate to Combe, the neighboring town, to prevent the people of Archet from going there for aid, they proceed to launch an assault against the town that is only stopped by the intervention of the village leader's son, his band of hunters, and the player.
Source: Taking Over the Town
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