Exact Match:
- blockading
- blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors; "the blockading ships prevented delivery of munitions"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- siege
collapse - the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack related words >
- attack,
- beleaguer,
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- besiege,
- besiegement,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- bottle up,
- bout,
- circumscription,
- confinement,
- cordon off,
- cordoning,
- encircle,
- encirclement,
- enclosure,
- encompassment,
- envelopment,
- go,
- immurement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- inclusion,
- investment,
- lay siege to,
- onslaught,
- pincer movement,
- quarantine,
- seizure,
- spell,
- vertical envelopment
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- captivity,
- circumscription,
- close arrest,
- confinement,
- cordoning,
- detention,
- dismemberment,
- durance,
- durance vile,
- duress,
- enclosure,
- envelopment,
- estrapade,
- galleys,
- hard labor,
- house arrest,
- immuration,
- immurement,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- inclusion,
- internment,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- martyrdom,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- quarantine,
- railriding,
- rock pile,
- siege,
- strappado,
- tar-and-feathering,
- term of imprisonment,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture
- imprisonment
collapse
- the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
- putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment related words >
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- captivity,
- circumscription,
- close arrest,
- confinement,
- cordoning,
- custody,
- detention,
- dismemberment,
- durance,
- durance vile,
- duress,
- enclosure,
- envelopment,
- estrapade,
- galleys,
- hard labor,
- house arrest,
- immuration,
- immurement,
- impalement,
- incarceration,
- inclusion,
- internment,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- martyrdom,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- quarantine,
- railriding,
- remand,
- rock pile,
- siege,
- strappado,
- tar-and-feathering,
- term of imprisonment,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture
- aerial tactics,
- airborne tactics,
- applied tactics,
- armored tactics,
- barrier tactics,
- beleaguerment,
- besiegement,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- cavalry tactics,
- cincture,
- circling,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumcincture,
- circumflexion,
- circumjacence,
- circumposition,
- containment,
- defensive strategy,
- diversion,
- embracement,
- encincture,
- enclosure,
- encompassment,
- enfoldment,
- envelopment,
- environment,
- feint,
- fire tactics,
- girding,
- girdling,
- inclusion,
- infantry tactics,
- infiltration,
- investment,
- involvement,
- mob tactics,
- mobile tactics,
- pincer movement,
- pincers movement,
- shock tactics,
- siege,
- strategy,
- surrounding,
- tactics,
- vertical envelopment
- bandage,
- bandaging,
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- besiegement,
- binder,
- binding,
- blanketing,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- blocking,
- blotting out,
- cementwork,
- cincture,
- circling,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumcincture,
- circumflexion,
- circumjacence,
- circumposition,
- circumscription,
- cloaking,
- clouding,
- coating,
- confinement,
- containment,
- cordoning,
- coverage,
- covering,
- curtaining,
- dust jacket,
- eclipse,
- eclipsing,
- embracement,
- encincture,
- encirclement,
- enclosure,
- encompassment,
- enfoldment,
- envelope,
- environment,
- enwrapment,
- enwrapping,
- gift wrapping,
- girding,
- girdling,
- hiding,
- immurement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- inclusion,
- incrustation,
- investment,
- involvement,
- jacket,
- laying on,
- mantling,
- masking,
- obduction,
- obscuring,
- occultation,
- overlaying,
- overspreading,
- pargeting,
- pincer movement,
- plasterwork,
- quarantine,
- screening,
- sheathing,
- shielding,
- shrouding,
- siege,
- stuccowork,
- superimposition,
- superposition,
- surrounding,
- upholstering,
- upholstery,
- veiling,
- vertical envelopment,
- wrap,
- wrapper,
- wrapping
- confinement
collapse
- the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
- the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement" related words >
- accouchement,
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- birth,
- birth throes,
- birthing,
- blessed event,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- childbearing,
- childbed,
- childbirth,
- circumscription,
- closeness,
- constraint,
- continence,
- cordoning,
- cramp,
- cramping,
- crowdedness,
- delivery,
- discipline,
- dismemberment,
- enclosure,
- envelopment,
- estrapade,
- galleys,
- genesis,
- giving birth,
- hair,
- hairbreadth,
- hairsbreadth,
- hard labor,
- hatching,
- having a baby,
- immurement,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incapaciousness,
- incarceration,
- inclusion,
- incommodiousness,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- labor,
- limit,
- limitation,
- martyrdom,
- moderation,
- multiparity,
- narrow gauge,
- narrowness,
- nascency,
- nativity,
- nearness,
- parturition,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- prescription,
- proscription,
- qualification,
- quarantine,
- railriding,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restrictedness,
- restriction,
- rock pile,
- siege,
- slenderness,
- stint,
- straitness,
- strappado,
- strictness,
- tar-and-feathering,
- the Nativity,
- the gantlet,
- the stork,
- tight squeeze,
- tightness,
- torment,
- torture,
- travail
- inclusion
collapse
- the act of including
- the relation of comprising something; "he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work"
- the state of being included related words >
- Anschluss,
- absorption,
- addition,
- affiliation,
- agglomeration,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- amalgamation,
- assimilation,
- association,
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- blend,
- blending,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- cincture,
- circling,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumcincture,
- circumflexion,
- circumjacence,
- circumposition,
- circumscription,
- classification,
- coadunation,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- colleagueship,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- composition,
- comradeship,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confinement,
- confraternity,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- containment,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- cordoning,
- counting,
- ecumenism,
- embarrassment,
- embodiment,
- embracement,
- encincture,
- encirclement,
- enclosure,
- encompassment,
- enfoldment,
- engagement,
- enmeshment,
- enosis,
- entanglement,
- envelopment,
- environment,
- federalization,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- freemasonry,
- fusion,
- girding,
- girdling,
- grouping,
- hookup,
- immurement,
- implication,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- involution,
- involvement,
- junction,
- junta,
- league,
- marriage,
- meld,
- melding,
- merger,
- numbering,
- package,
- package deal,
- partnership,
- quarantine,
- relation,
- siege,
- sodality,
- solidification,
- sorority,
- surrounding,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- unification,
- union,
- wedding
- investment
collapse
- the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
- the act of putting on robes or vestments
- outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism
- money that is invested with an expectation of profit related words >
- accouterment,
- aerial tactics,
- airborne tactics,
- appanage,
- apparel,
- applied tactics,
- armament,
- armored tactics,
- array,
- attire,
- barrier tactics,
- bedizenment,
- beleaguerment,
- besiegement,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- catering,
- cavalry tactics,
- chandlery,
- clothes,
- clothing,
- costume,
- defensive strategy,
- diversion,
- dot,
- dower,
- dowry,
- drapery,
- dress,
- dressing,
- duds,
- empowerment,
- enablement,
- encirclement,
- encompassment,
- endowment,
- envelopment,
- equipment,
- fashion,
- fatigues,
- feathers,
- feint,
- fig,
- finding,
- fire tactics,
- fitting out,
- foundation,
- furnishing,
- furnishment,
- garb,
- garments,
- gear,
- guise,
- habiliment,
- habit,
- infantry tactics,
- infiltration,
- investiture,
- jointure,
- legal jointure,
- linen,
- logistics,
- marriage portion,
- mob tactics,
- mobile tactics,
- outfitting,
- pincer movement,
- pincers movement,
- plunge,
- portion,
- preparation,
- prime investment,
- procurement,
- providing,
- provision,
- provisioning,
- purveyance,
- rags,
- raiment,
- reinforcement,
- replenishment,
- resupply,
- retailing,
- risk,
- robes,
- selling,
- settlement,
- shock tactics,
- siege,
- speculation,
- sportswear,
- strategy,
- style,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subvention,
- supply,
- supplying,
- tactics,
- thirds,
- threads,
- togs,
- toilette,
- trim,
- venture,
- vertical envelopment,
- vestment,
- vesture,
- victualing,
- wear,
- wearing apparel
- quarantine
collapse
- isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
- enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
- place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons; "My dog was quarantined before he could live in England" related words >
- Jim Crow,
- alien,
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- beleaguer,
- beleaguerment,
- beset,
- besetment,
- besiege,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- bolt,
- bound,
- box in,
- cage,
- chamber,
- circumscription,
- close in,
- color bar,
- compass,
- confinement,
- contain,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- cordon sanitaire,
- cordoning,
- cordoning off,
- corral,
- cull out,
- detachment,
- divide,
- division,
- encircle,
- enclose,
- enclosure,
- encompass,
- enshrine,
- envelopment,
- ethnocentrism,
- exclusiveness,
- fence in,
- foreigner,
- ghettoize,
- gin,
- hedge in,
- hem in,
- house in,
- immurement,
- impound,
- imprison,
- imprisonment,
- incarcerate,
- incarceration,
- include,
- inclusion,
- insularity,
- insulate,
- insulation,
- isolate,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- jail,
- keep apart,
- keep aside,
- kennel,
- know-nothingism,
- lay aside,
- leaguer,
- mew,
- mew up,
- narrowness,
- out-group,
- outcast,
- outsider,
- parochialism,
- pen,
- pen in,
- persona non grata,
- pick out,
- pocket,
- privacy,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- put aside,
- quarantine flag,
- race hatred,
- racial segregation,
- rail in,
- recess,
- reclusion,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- riddle,
- rope off,
- rustication,
- sanitary cordon,
- screen,
- seal off,
- seclude,
- seclusion,
- secrecy,
- segregate,
- segregation,
- separate,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shrine,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- siege,
- sieve,
- sift,
- snobbishness,
- sort out,
- splendid isolation,
- stable,
- stranger,
- surround,
- thrash,
- thresh,
- tightness,
- wall in,
- winnow,
- withdrawal,
- wrap,
- xenophobia,
- yard,
- yard up,
- yellow flag,
- yellow jack
- circumscription
collapse
- the act of circumscribing related words >
- abbreviation,
- allowance,
- astriction,
- astringency,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- border line,
- bottleneck,
- bound,
- boundaries,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bounds,
- bourn,
- bourns,
- boycott,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- cervix,
- cession,
- circumference,
- coarctation,
- compactedness,
- compaction,
- compass,
- compression,
- compressure,
- concentration,
- concession,
- condensation,
- confine,
- confinement,
- confines,
- consolidation,
- constriction,
- constringency,
- contraction,
- contracture,
- coordinates,
- cordoning,
- cramp,
- cramping,
- curtailment,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- decrease,
- delimitation,
- demarcation,
- determinant,
- diminuendo,
- division line,
- edges,
- embargo,
- enclosure,
- end,
- envelopment,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- exemption,
- extenuating circumstances,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- fringes,
- frontier,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- high-water mark,
- hourglass,
- hourglass figure,
- immurement,
- imprisonment,
- inadmissibility,
- incarceration,
- inclusion,
- injunction,
- interface,
- isthmus,
- knitting,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limitations,
- limiting factor,
- limits,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- lockout,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- marches,
- mark,
- mental reservation,
- mete,
- metes,
- metes and bounds,
- modification,
- narrow place,
- narrowing,
- neck,
- nonadmission,
- omission,
- outlines,
- outskirts,
- pale,
- parameters,
- perimeter,
- periphery,
- preclusion,
- prohibition,
- puckering,
- pursing,
- qualification,
- quarantine,
- reduction,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- repudiation,
- reservation,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- salvo,
- shortening,
- siege,
- skirts,
- solidification,
- special case,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- stint,
- stranglement,
- strangulation,
- striction,
- stricture,
- systole,
- taboo,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- verges,
- waiver,
- wasp waist,
- wrinkling
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