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barricade

1
n barrier, blockade, bulwark, fence, obstruction, palisade, rampart, stockade

2
vb bar, block, blockade, defend, fortify, obstruct, protect, shut in

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barricade ( barricades plural & 3rd person present) ( barricading present participle) ( barricaded past tense & past participle )

1 n-count 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. (=blockade)
Large areas of the city have been closed off by barricades set up by the demonstrators.

2       verb   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.
The rioters barricaded streets with piles of blazing tyres...      V n
The doors had been barricaded.      V n

3       verb   If you barricade yourself inside a room or building, you place barriers across the door or entrance so that other people cannot get in.
The students have barricaded themselves into their dormitory building...      V pron-refl prep/adv
About forty prisoners are still barricaded inside the wrecked buildings.      V-ed

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