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/bˈærəkˌeɪd/ /bˈɛrəkˌeɪd/ Listen

Barricade

noun

A barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.. Synonym: roadblock.

A barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy.

verb

(past & past part. barricaded; pres. part. barricading)

Render unsuitable for passage. Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop. "Barricade the streets" , "Stop the busy road"

Prevent access to by barricading.

Block off with barricades. Synonym: barricado.

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"Barricade" Quotes from Famous Books

... carts and motor-cars drawn across the street to make a barricade, and most of the gates of the Green had garden-seats and planks lying against them. There were even branches, torn from the trees and shrubs, thrust ...

— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine

... moon gave little light, but Loo knew his way beneath the stunted cedars and through the barricade of ilex drawn round the rectory on the northern side. His eyes, trained to darkness, saw the shadowy form of a man awaiting him beneath the cedars almost as soon as ...

— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman

... said, "and do exactly as I tell you. I know the Hotel in Basle, and if you show my card they will give you good accommodations. Go to the child's room and barricade the windows, so that they can only be opened by the greatest force. When Heidi has gone to bed, lock the door from outside, for the child walks in her sleep and might come to harm in the strange hotel. She might get up and open ...

— Heidi - (Gift Edition) • Johanna Spyri

... camp-fires, and occupied themselves with their cooking; the horses that had been killed were already but skeletons, the flesh having been cut off for food. The advance parties had been called in, and a barricade thrown up just beyond Champigny, where the advance guard occasionally exchanged shots with the Prussians a few hundred yards away. Strong parties were at work erecting a series of ...

— A Girl of the Commune • George Alfred Henty

... and by-roads that enmeshes the two Richebourgs. The natural features of the country were inscrutable, and landmarks there were none. The countryside grew absolutely deserted and the solitary farms were roofless and untenanted. Eventually we found our road blocked by a barricade of fallen masonry in front of a village which was as inhospitable as ...

— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan

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