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ALL meanings of barricade

bar·ri·cade
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  • countable noun barricade A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest. 3
  • verb barricade If you barricade something such as a road or an entrance, you place a barricade or barrier across it, usually to stop someone getting in. 3
  • verb barricade If you barricade yourself inside a room or building, you place barriers across the door or entrance so that other people cannot get in. 3
  • noun barricade a barrier for defence, esp one erected hastily, as during street fighting 3
  • verb barricade to erect a barricade across (an entrance, passageway, etc) or at points of access to (a room, district of a town, etc) 3
  • verb barricade to obstruct; block 3
  • noun barricade a barrier thrown up hastily for defense, as in street fighting 3
  • noun barricade any barrier or obstruction 3
  • verb transitive barricade to shut in or keep out with a barricade 3
  • verb transitive barricade to put up barricades in; obstruct 3
  • noun barricade barrier, blockade 1
  • transitive verb barricade block, obstruct 1
  • noun barricade An improvised barrier erected across a street or other thoroughfare to prevent or delay the movement of opposing forces. 1
  • noun barricade a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy. 1
  • noun barricade any barrier that obstructs passage. 1
  • verb with object barricade to obstruct or block with a barricade: barricading the streets to prevent an attack. 1
  • verb with object barricade to shut in and defend with or as if with a barricade: The rebels had barricaded themselves in the old city. 1
  • noun barricade A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence. 0
  • noun barricade An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark. 0
  • noun barricade (figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation. 0
  • verb barricade to close or block a road etc., using a barricade. 0
  • verb barricade to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port. 0
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