Blockade
Blockade verb - To surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication.
Usage example: blockaded the city until it surrendered
Free
Free verb - To make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructions.
Usage example: we'll free the river by breaking up the ice jam
Common collocations
| way | blockade way | free way |
Both words in one sentence
- It takes Action from Babylon 5 to end the military blockade of Proxima 3 and to free Mars.
Source: The War of Earthly Aggression -
West Berlin survived the Soviet blockade of 1948/49 via the Berlin Airlift, keeping its status as an island of the free world amid the red sea of communism.
Source: Useful Notes / Berlin -
In the full game the bridge is free of cars and the blockade never happened.
Source: Bolivian Army Ending
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