The verb is pronounced /ɪntə(r)dɪkt/. The noun is pronounced /ɪntə(r)dɪkt/.
( interdicted)
1.
If an armed force interdicts something or someone, they stop them and prevent them from moving. If they interdict a route, they block it or cut it off. ( AM FORMAL )
Troops could be ferried in to interdict drug shipments.
= intercept
VERB : V n
• inter‧dic‧tion
(interdictions)
...increased drug interdiction efforts by the military and Coast Guard.
N-VAR
2.
An interdict is an official order that something must not be done or used. ( FORMAL )
The National Trust has placed an interdict on jet-skis in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.
= ban
N-COUNT