BARRICADE


Meaning of BARRICADE in English

(~s, barricading, ~d)

1.

A ~ 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 ~s set up by the demonstrators.

= blockade

N-COUNT

2.

If you ~ something such as a road or an entrance, you place a ~ or barrier across it, usually to stop someone getting in.

The rioters ~d streets with piles of blazing tyres...

The doors had been ~d.

VERB: V n, V n

3.

If you ~ yourself inside a room or building, you place barriers across the door or entrance so that other people cannot get in.

The students have ~d themselves into their dormitory building...

About forty prisoners are still ~d inside the wrecked buildings.

VERB: V pron-refl prep/adv, V-ed

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