transcription, транскрипция: [ bærɪkeɪd, AM -keɪd ]
( barricades, barricading, barricaded)
1.
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.
= blockade
N-COUNT
2.
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...
The doors had been barricaded.
VERB : V n , V n
3.
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...
About forty prisoners are still barricaded inside the wrecked buildings.
VERB : V pron-refl prep / adv , V-ed