Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
To create a blockade against.
A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
A point of defeat or extinction.
A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
A spring of water.
A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
A point of desperation.
A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.
A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
A barrier to vision.
A barrier.
An impediment to free movement.
A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
To well, as water; spring.
To boil.
To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).