noun
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A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
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An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
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(in the plural) A place of confrontation.
verb
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To close or block a road etc., using a barricade
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To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port
Examples of barricade in a Sentence
But in any case, here was a barricade 190-207 ft.
The Acropolis had been dismantled as a fortress after the expulsion of Hippias; its defenders against the Persians found it necessary to erect a wooden barricade at its entrance.
Players can barricade doors with chairs and boxes, destroy or move cabinets and tables and interact fully with their surroundings.
A double row of overturned coaches made a capital barricade, with a few paving stones.
He said there seemed to be a " cultural barricade " around Birmingham and a reluctance to accept ideas from elsewhere.
He was shot near the rubble barricade in front of Rossville Flats.
Numbly, she rolled over to a pile of grain sacks they had put up as a barricade.
Few things of the kind are superior to the sketch of the early barricade of the Fronde in which the writer had so great a share, the hesitations of the court, the bold adventure of the coadjutor himself into the palace and the final triumph of the insurgents.
The enemy advanced of the sap, blowing up a sandbag barricade leaving just one foot of its standing.
In order to avoid bloodshed, he went down to the insurgents on the barricade, but was seized by them, imprisoned, and for some time his life was in danger.
Accordingly, in spite of the warning of General Cavaignac, he mounted the barricade at the entrance to the Faubourg St Antoine, bearing a green branch as sign of peace.