All barricade synonyms
bar·ri·cade
B b 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a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.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.