Sekirov Dictionary

barricade

/ˈbæɹɪkeɪd/

noun 4
verb 2
forms 3

noun4

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
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An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
- Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere. — 1713
[in the plural] (figurative) A place of confrontation.
(figurative) Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.

verb2

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To close or block a road etc., as, or using, a barricade.
- I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley. — 1831
To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.

forms

barricaded · barricading · barricades

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