barricade
- barricade
- [[t]bæ̱rɪke͟ɪd, AM -keɪd[/t]]
barricades, barricading, barricaded
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.
Large areas of the city have been closed off by barricades set up by the demonstrators.
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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.
[V n] The rioters barricaded streets with piles of blazing tyres...
[V n] The doors had been barricaded.
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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.
[V pron-refl prep/adv] The students have barricaded themselves into their dormitory building...
[V-ed] About forty prisoners are still barricaded inside the wrecked buildings.
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barricade — BARRICADE. s. f. Espèce de retranchement qu on fait ordinairement avec des barriques remplies de terre, ou avec des pieux, des chaînes, etc. pour se défendre, pour se mettre à couvert de l ennemi. Faire une barricade. Enfoncer, forcer, rompre une … Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798
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Barricade — Bar ri*cade , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Barricaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Barricading}.] [Cf. F. barricader. See {Barricade}, n.] To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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