barricade

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/ˌbæɹ.ɪˈkeɪd/

noun 4verb 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

human

VERB + BARRICADE

build, construct, erect, put up, set up

form

The angry crowd formed a barricade across the street to stop traffic.

dismantle, remove, take down

smash, storm

The protesters managed to smash through the barricades and enter the building.

man

The protesters manned the barricade all through the night to block the entrance.

PREP

behind a/the ~

The protesters stood behind a barricade and chanted for several hours.

over a/the ~

The angry protesters and police faced off over the barricade that blocked the street.

~ across

Police put up a barricade across the street to stop traffic during the parade.

~ against

The protesters erected a barricade against the advancing riot officers.

~ of

The protesters built a barricade of old tires and metal drums across the street.

Definitions

noun

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence

An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.

Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.

Her future friend from grade six, Millie Mirarch, was often caught in various parts of the school being told that she was extremely pretty —for a girl with teeth held together by a metal wire that protruded well beyond the barricade of her lips.

A place of confrontation.

I have a friend who finds the whole idea of a gay marching band distasteful on the grounds that it replicates straight culture. I'm not ready to follow her to the barricades on that because I think that to some extent the sight of women banging bass drums and men prancing around in pink spandex has to undermine a patriarchal and heterosexist assumption or two.

Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.

verb

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.

To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or ro

roadblock

verb — block off with barricades

barricado

verb — render unsuitable for passage

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.

Wiktionary

Salah will ask himself forever how he did not score at least one goal here. He might have nightmares featuring the face of Courtois, such was the one-man barricade he formed.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

The rebels made a barricade across the road.

Tatoeba · #282756

The laborers formed a human barricade.

Tatoeba · #326343

Usage Notes

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