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All barricade synonyms

bar·ri·cade
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verb barricade

  • blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
  • fortify — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
  • obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • defend — If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
  • bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
  • shut in — closed; fastened up: a shut door.
  • secure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
  • lock up — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.

noun barricade

  • barrier — A barrier is something such as a rule, law, or policy that makes it difficult or impossible for something to happen or be achieved.
  • cordon — A cordon is a line or ring of police, soldiers, or vehicles preventing people from entering or leaving an area.
  • obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
  • fortification — the act of fortifying or strengthening.
  • fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
  • rampart — Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
  • roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
  • bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
  • palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
  • stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
  • stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
  • blank wall — an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.
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